GOLD COAST FOOTBALL TEAM:

GOLD COAST FOOTBALL TEAM: A scarce printed 8vo folding menu card for a dinner given to the Gold Coast Football Team at the Dunlop Rubber Factory in Speke, Liverpool, on 11th September 1951, individually signed to the inside by over twenty players and staff of the Black Stars who toured Ireland and Britain (and famously played their matches bare foot) including Charles Kumi Gyamfi (who later became the first African to play in Germany and coached Ghana to victory in the African Cup of Nations in 1963, 1965 and 1982), Tommy Wilberforce, James Kenneth Adjaye, Emmanuel Christian Briandt (Captain), John Pobee, J. J. Nelson, George Wood, Francis Macaulay, Richard Akwei (manager) etc. Some very light, minimal age wear, VG