Kotoko land $50,000 kit sponsorship: In Singapore
Ghana’s former premier league champions, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, have signed a $50,000 a year kit sponsorship with a Singapore manufacturing giants, Marfo Sports, for the next three years.
The preliminary unveiling ceremony which took place in Kumasi last Saturday was a prelude to the grand launch scheduled for the end of the month.
For now, Kotoko have taken delivery of a set of an all-red home jerseys, and a yellow and a black apparel for away matches, while plans are afoot for an agreed number of sets of jersey, including replica to be delivered to fans.
The Country Manager of the Singapore Company, Arenton Ofoe Chiri, said 10,000 replica jerseys would be supplied to fans at a yet-to-be agreed price for starters.
Marfo has been the main supplies of equipment to major clubs in Europe and Africa, and organisations, including the UN, for many years, and it is expected that Kotoko will feed on the brand to reclaim the Premiership title.
The General Manager of the Club, Samuel Opoku Nti, described the deal as timely as the resurgent Kotoko attempt to reclaim the league trophy in the 2016/2017 season.
Kotoko, expectedly wore the all-red yesterday at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi in their international friendly against Serbian giants, Jagodina.
The match lowered the curtains on the club’s 80th anniversary celebration which started four months ago. Kotoko won 5-0.
He noted that the image of Marfo was huge and the ‘only thing they could do to commensurate the gesture was to win the league and reclaim their position as the best in the country and Africa.’
