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Youth and Sports Minister, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye has disclosed that government will continue to support the lesser developed sports especially Beach Soccer, as plans are far advanced to build a new arena in Dansoman.

"This is our gold medal for the future, ‘Beach Soccer’ I will support it because am convinced in my mind that Ghana will upstage Nigeria and the rest of the world," he said.

"The Beach Soccer as a sport has done well and government will continue to support any discipline that is doing well.

"I have said that equal attention ought to be given to all sporting disciplines not only football, being it athletics, boxing, weightlifting, tennis, taekwondo and any sports that is doing well.

"We are supposed to support all the sporting disciplines and that is what we intend to do," he stressed.

According to the Sports Minister, a new Beach Soccer arena is being constructed in Dansoman and plans are far advance to see to it that all disciplines are given the needed attention.

“So far we have done some little support to the other sporting disciplines and we shall do more,” he said.

“The Beach Soccer arena in my constituency was too small and so what we have done is to transfer the sand to Dansoman Mayland, and we’re hoping to finish before the end of the year so we can have two more apart from the already one we have in Accra,” he added.

The weekend saw a fiercely contested Beach Soccer Unity Cup match involving the four coastal towns in Ghana, Central, Greater Accra, Volta and Western regions which the Greater Accra region emerged victorious with a 4-3 win over Volta Region to win the first ever Beach Soccer Unity Cup.