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| Emmanuel Twumasi |
Ghana’s Emmanuel Twumasi has vowed to help Wake
Forest University win the greatest prize in United States college soccer
competition.
Twumasi, a 20-year-old scholar at sophomore and a
product of Right to Dream Academy of Ghana (RtD) as well as Kent School in
Connecticut has taken college soccer by storm with his pace and knack for
goals.
With two more years to complete college, the young
Ghanaian winger can’t wait to win the ultimate in college soccer with the Demon
Deacons who play in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
“The ultimate target for me this year is to win the
ACC and NCAA Championships with my team. We won the ACC last year but we lost
the NCAA final through penalty kicks so my goal is to win the biggest prize in
college soccer and that will be awesome”, Twumasi told Ghana Soccer US (www.ghsoccerus.net).
This season, Wake Forest have already chalked a
winning streak of 11 games and a double-digit unbeaten streak for the
second-straight season after going 11-0-2 over a 13-game stretch in 2016. With
two regular season games remaining, the Deacs, who will be traveling to Boston
College this weekend, can clinch a third-straight ACC Atlantic Division title and
the top seed in the ACC Tournament with a win or draw against Boston College or
Syracuse.
And this is why Twumasi thinks the Deacs, at number
two, are the best in their division and that they also play the best of soccer
nationally.
“We are looking at the possibilities of winning the
ACC Championships and the NCAA Championships.
“We have a great chance of winning the ultimate –
the NCAA. Our team plays one of the best soccer in the country and if we stay
focused and disciplined, I think we can win the NCAA Championship”, he noted.
He said RtD brought him to Kent for education in
2012 but he persevered on the field of soccer and academics until he got a
scholarship to Wake Forest in 2016.
“Combining academics with soccer was very difficult
in high school but it is much more difficult in college. In college, you are
always on the road, you will miss some classes and you have to catch up even
when you are on the road playing games. The turnaround is so sharp in college,
you can have a game on Saturday and play again on Tuesday so it is hard to
balance both but we do it”.
He added that every day he goes on the field, he
tries to be the best he can possibly be, to help his team win games and that,
it has been his long term goal to play professionally since he was a kid.
“I think I am on the right path to achieve that
goal. I don’t know when it’s going to be but my ultimate goal is to play
professionally.
“The ultimate target for any young footballer is to
represent his country. I won’t put a time limit on that but if I get the chance
to represent any of the junior teams, I will be more than ready to show what I
can do”, he stated.
Earlier this month, Twumasi was named the ACC Division
I Offensive Player of the Week when he scored his seventh goal of the season. as
a freshman, the Ghanaian appeared in 24 of Deacs’ 25 games. He finished the 2016
season with six goals and four assists for 16 points. The goal tally put him
third on the team while the assist total tied him for the best mark in the team.
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