AdvertisementBasketball's abundance in Ghana is actuality artificial afresh through the bequest of an unsung hero

Emmanuel Quaye, affectionately accepted as "Rubber Man" is a basketball drillmaster in Tema who continues to affect the abutting bearing of talent

With a acclaimed accomplished as a civic amateur with the CERPS aggregation in the 90s, Quaye now channels his affection into abstraction the approaching of basketball players through his role as arch drillmaster of the Tema Youth U-15 team

"It all started for me aback I acquainted and asked myself, area I am what is my impact? Everybody will allocution about Rubberman was this, was that but in the end, they will ask you, what did you do?" Quaye said to 3sports

Saturday mornings, while abounding are still captivated in the abundance of their beds, a committed accumulation of adolescent athletes alternation at the association four basketball cloister beneath Quaye's tutelage

As the arch drillmaster of the Tema Youth U-15 team, he has committed himself to a account that transcends the sport: giving aback to his community

"Looking back, I saw that addition gave me the platform, so I should additionally accord somebody that belvedere as a coach, abetment bodies to comedy bigger and aback I see them, I am actual happy." Quaye's aesthetics is simple: basketball can be a able apparatus for claimed development

For the adolescent athletes who accumulate at the cloister every Saturday, Quaye's training sessions are a adventitious to apprentice from one of the best. It is a affect parents of adolescent athletes share

His eyes for Tema Youth and the broader basketball association charcoal ambitious. He hopes to see added adolescent players accomplish their dreams

His charge to adorning the abutting bearing of athletes stands as a able admonition of adorableness in sports