The story of how a former footballer helped children in Africa take up the sport after his career was ended by a car crash is to be made into a movie.
Mark Holmes, who used to play for Falkirk, Ross County and Inverness Caley Thistle, was only 26 when the accident put paid to his ambitions.
But he went on to set up a the Mark Holmes Football Academy in Inverness and now runs three sites in Ghana which are changing young players’ lives.Mark said: “I was contacted by a young coach from Ghana called Solomon Owusu. “He started off with just four youngsters until we had over 600 kids in that one academy providing them with schooling, food and accommodation.” His inspirational journey is to become the focus of a documentary and a movie by award-winning African director Michael Amoah.Mark added: “I met with Michael and he liked what I was doing.
He has already been to Scotland to cover the Scottish side of things for a documentary before going back to Ghana.“He has also written a script for a movie of a little boy who has a dream of being a footballer and comes to the academy.”Mark initially ran the academies in Ghana by working with Solomon on Facebook Messenger and FaceTime.
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