Eric Tawiah Mensah, popularly known as Eric Mends in the media space as this years best sports personality in the Forty under Forty awards.Mr Mends currently is the marketing coordinator in one of the biggest IT firms in Tema called Office Data Ghana Mr. Mends also the founder of Apam City Football Club in 2008 to support young people across the midlands and deprived areas in the Gomoa District in the Central region of Ghana to help put Gomoa West on the map.Eric Mends also presently the president of Manchester City Ghana supporters Chapter, for the past 7 years. Manchester City Ghana supporters president Mr Eric Tawiah Mensah offered to words of encouragement to the Ghana supporters chapterHe is also a Dstv Ghana representative for DStv in South Africa as the supporter club reporter.He is a qualified graduate with sports management worldwide specifically in soccer management and scouting and a GFA talent ID Spotter. He has over 8 years experience working as a scout and in player recruitment.As an experienced mentor, Eric specialises in building confidence and self-esteem working with youth and academy players.He also has over 10 years experience as a Division 2 league player and manager.Eric has managed the most successful youth football club in Gomoa West District and has placed 33 players into academies of which 5 have played at international levels.Mr Mends is the P.R.O for Ghana black stars player Joseph Attamah Larweh and also the president of The Attamah Foundation. Mr Mensah was recently appointed as the West Africa representative for Hidden Talent Discovery. Hidden Talent discovery is a non-profit football career organisation aiming to scout andpromote young talented players between the ages of 17-22 years,from every regions globally. They are are strongly in support of youths in football skills aswell as encouraging positive involvement in their own society.