EVERGREEN STARS FOOTBALL ACADEMY CLUB

CONSTITUTION

Article one:

Name: *The Evergreen Stars football Academy is a learning institution and shall be known as and hereby referred to as the Academy.

Article two:

Location: * The Academy shall be located at Tropicana –Senegambia with its training ground as to be indicated here thereafter.

Article three:

Affiliation: *The Academy shall be affiliated to the Gambia Football Association and shall exist according to the latter’s constitutional provisions.

Article four:

Membership: *The Academy shall accept requests from talents wishing to train with it, provided the said to-be trainees shall sign a bond that qualifies them to become members of the Academy (see appendix 5)

Article five:

Finances: (a) Source:

*The Academy shall seek financial assistance from benevolent persons, institutions and individual, donors to enable it beef up what will cater for the Academy needs.

(b) Account:

*The Academy shall open an account with a local bank to facilitate financial transactions between the Academy, its membership, organs and well-wishers.

*There shall be a sole signatory to the account as mentioned above with a view to remove all financial bottlenecks which may tend to hinder any of the Academy’s activities for which funds will be urgently required.

(d) Accountability:

*For the benefit of all and sundry, the nominated account signatory will be requested to furnish a financial report to throw light into the Academy’s financial standing as at when it may be deemed necessary.

Article six: *Organs:

(a) It shall be composed of 5 (five) persons to be elected at the Academy’s General Assembly to be organized annually.

(b) Secretariat:

*It shall be composed of the Executive secretary, the Assistant Executive Secretary and the Treasurer.

i. The Executive Secretary shall handle all administrative matters.

ii. The Assistant Executive Secretary shall be responsible to the Executive Secretary.

iii. The Treasurer shall handle all the books of the Academy and shall be responsible to the Executive Secretary.

It shall include all registered trainee-players and shall be headed by a General Captain assisted by the Deputy. He/ she shall be responsible to the Technical Director.

Article seven: *Projects:

The aims and the objectives of the Academy shall be to

(a) Locate a suitable ground for the activities of the Academy.

(b) Identify seeds for higher training programmes.

(c) Find attachment overseas for excelling trainees to well-established football clubs either at local or overseas locations.

(d) Seek and provide all the needs of the Academy’s organs.

(e) Negotiate all movements of the trainees.

(f) Amicable settlements of all legal matters involving any of its organs.

Article eight: * Promulgation:

Aforementioned provisions are retrospectively promulgated on the date of the Academy’s foundation 10^th August 2003.

Ambitions

It is common knowledge that third world countries lack the technical environment to groom to higher heights young sports talents who aspire to become great player’s one day. Notwithstanding this handicap, gifted technical cadres continue to operate with the little at their disposal. This time around, the Evergreen Stars F.A.C. seeks to break the barrier of lack of innovative and motivation and wishes to seek external and local help to assist it to be able to put in place:

(a) a proper infrastructure as a training camp

(b) Centre for trade learning, i.e. building and construction, carpentry, electrical and electronics basic and advanced computer studies (Engineering hardware, software and operation, etc…) sewing, etc…. As an accompaniment, the said football-students will learn these opportunities, thus preparing them for the future when they can no longer play football.

(c) A player-replacement programmed to ensure that the trainees of the Academy are exposed to competition matches both local and internationally.

(d) An exchange programmed of technical cadres, i.e. the invitation of international technical assistance from the national football federation and overseas football communities, the participation of both players and technical men in training courses at home and abroad etc.