Former Berekum Chelsea defender, Edward says UNITY played an integral part in the club’s success when they won the 2011/12 season Ghana Premier League title.
Kpodo was part of the team and featured in over 25 matches after their impressive triumph in the domestic league which propelled Berekum Cheslea to qualify and participate in their maiden CAF Champions League campaign in 2012.
According to the experienced centre-back, he had already played with some of his teammates at colts and amateur levels which made it easy to build a formidable team when they re-united at Berekum Cheslea.
He added that, the team had enough quality in every department which kept the team united throughout their continental challenge.
Speaking to LinusNartey TV on YouTube, Kpodo said, “That season I knew Emma, Awako, Jordan. For Jordan I knew him since 1990, for Jordan I have known him for a while. So the boys we’ve known each other for long. When we arrived at Chelsea, it was Unity and we had equally good replacements. It was always an eye saw whenever you visit our trainings at Berekum which pulled alot of people to come watch us. When we train, you might think it is Hearts of Oak or Asante Kotoko. So it was the Unity that propelled us, if there was no Unity the team would have been disastrous because we had all the quality players. We had Banahene, Bismark Idan and one Beninese striker who was well built. And at that time, in Ghana every player wanted to play for Berekum Chelsea”.
Edward Kpodo started his professional career with Team Youth where he played 3 years for the Harbour City lads, two in the Premiership and another in Division One.
Kpodo went on to play in Russia and Armenia before returning to have a second stint with Berekum Cheslea in 2020.
Watch the full interview below.