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Albert K Frimpong Sunil
Initiator of Skate Soccer & CEO –IFSS

Albert K Frimpong Sunil
Initiator of Skate Soccer & CEO –IFSS
Albert K. Frimpong was born to a carrier diplomat father and a nutrition officer mother. Due to the nature of his father’s job (career diplomat), young Albert travelled from one Francophone country to another and attended several different schools in the process. He grew up in Kinshasa, Ivory Coast and Togo.
From age 11 only, he seriously engaged in organizing sports activities with friends. Albert spent a lot of his time playing soccer and was even invited by many youth soccer (COLTS) teams in his days to play however declined the offers.
In 1987, he began the long and difficult journey of introducing the games of Baseball and Softball officially in Ghana. Finally, in 1992, a Baseball and Softball Association was formed in the country. Albert was inducted into office as one of the first executives amongst very top businessmen and senior Army officers who were put together as members.
He became the national team’s captain in 1993 and held on to this title until he retired in 2003. He led Ghana’s baseball team to many countries, creating a good name for his nation at every occasion. He trained and played some trial games in Japan on two different occasions and was also interviewed and shown many times on Japan TV to millions of viewers.
Albert speaks very good English, Twi his local dialect, French and Lingala (Congo DR language). After his secondary education in both Labone Secondary school for O level and Saint Thomas Aquinas secondary for his sixth form and later worker’s college he worked with many different groups and organizations as Operations manager, Manager and Director etc. most of his experience in jobs and life he learnt on the job.
With his great leadership qualities, he won the hearts of many both locally and internationally. He is a respected member of the Africa Baseball and Softball Association (ABSA), Association for friends of African Baseball (AFB) in Japan, member baseball federations on the continent, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and many more that cannot be mentioned now.
Baseball has been his life for the over three decades and he has lived that life to the best of his ability. He is also a founding member of Beach soccer in Ghana and he has been an integral part of the great exploits and achievements of the sport here in Ghana since 2007.
He is also well known and respected internationally as a baseball hero and in particular within the African Baseball and Softball Association, ABSA. After retiring he took up many different sporting activities and also set up an NGO then called Baseball Ghana Foundation for the promotion of baseball in Ghana which went very well.
After a few years he changed the name of the NGO to SYDO Ghana (Sports and Youth Development Organization) to expand his support for the youth and sports in general. Around that same time too due to his passion for the physically challenged and underprivileged he
This Skate Soccer project has been featured extensively on CNN, BBC, GERMAN TV, FIFA FUTBOL MUNDIAL, YOUTUBE and lots of international platforms
Along the line he and Yaw Ampofo-Ankra one of Ghana’s topmost sports journalist introduced Beach soccer in Ghana in 2007.
He has worked as Operations Manager of Tourism Transport company ltd and also Operations Manager of Eagle Ahomka Homes ltd. Until early January 2011 he was the PA to the late board chairman of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Naval Captain G.O.Asbonteng.
In 2010 Albert was persuaded to contest for president of Ghana Baseball and Softball Association which he did and he won over ninety-five percent to become the president. With his very good connections in Japan he was able to sign a contract for the supply of equipment’s, some financial and technical support for Ghana Baseball and Softball.
He also arranged with some international federations in Europe and other American countries for partnership and support for the development of Ghana Baseball and Softball. He managed with his good leadership and inter personal relations to get many international goodwill for the development of the games here in our country.
Despite the many difficulties he never gave up. He lead in securing a Japanese grant for the construction of the first ever Baseball and Softball field in Ghana called KOSHIEN GHANA BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL FIELD. This field is situated in the Labone Senior High school.
On Wednesday 15th March 2017 he was elected and Executive Board Member of the Ghana Olympic Committee. This is as a result of his many years of committed, dedicated and selfless service to the development and promotion of sports.
He is a very respected member of all past and current ABSA. Many see him as the best strongest person to lead African Baseball and Softball. He has been and continues to be a great asset to sports, youth and countries in Africa and beyond. He is very popular in Japan since he made his debut on their TV in 1998 when he featured in the very famous TV Documentary called the Unbelievable.
This was a documentary about Baseball players from Ghana, Africa showcasing their skill in Ghana and also in Japan. He trained with the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks in Japan in 1998.
In 2001 he took two Ghanaian players to Japan to try out for the MLB teams like the
Anaheim Angels etc.
*He is a leading member of the African Baseball and Softball Association (ABSA)
* Founder and president of Ghana Baseball and Softball Federation
* Executive Director – Sports and Youth Development Organization (SYDO
Ghana)
* President of Skate Soccer Ghana – SSC Ghana
* A member of the Technical Commission of ABSA
* A highly respected member of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation
(WBSC)
* Executive member of the Francophone Baseball and Softball Association (AFBS)
* The founder and initiator of Skate soccer a fast spreading sport globally
* Co-founder of Beach soccer in Ghana – GBSA
* Re electected Executive board member of the Ghana Olympic Committee.
* Past Member of the finance committee of the Ghana Olympic committee
* in 2018 appointed the Chef De Mission for the Ghanaian team to the Africa Youth
games in Algeria for.
* He is also the co-founder and CEO of the International Federation of Skate
Soccer, IFSS.
*He is the newly elected president of Africa Baseball and Softball- WBSC AFRICA
Ghana has a lot of very selfless and hardworking people who have been doing lots of very great works for the country but on the quiet. This is one of them who is a hero both in and outside the country and an inspiration to many young people, children and adults within and outside
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