Adam Bate speaks to FC Nordsjaelland chairman and Right to Dream founder Tom Vernon to find out how one man's commitment to developing role-models for African players is bearing fruit.
"Academies will naturally produce good players from time to time," Tom Vernon tells Sky Sports. "But if you don't look at them and feel proud of what they stand for, if it's just a nasty kid who scored a hat-trick in the Champions League, then I don't think that feels good.
"We had a guy play at the World Cup in Brazil and if he wasn't the guy that he is I would have had very little interest in the fact that we produced a World Cup player. But it's when you know what he stands for and who he wants to be that we get our satisfaction."
Nice sentiments but when Vernon says it you know he means it. Manchester United's former head scout in Africa backs it up with action. In 1999, he founded the Right to Dream academy in Ghana, providing talented boys and girls with the chance to fulfil their potential.
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