Created in May 2012 in the city of Limbe, ADISA launched its operations in football through its first club called Africa Dream FC in FECAFOOT’s Fako Departmental League, securing a quick qualification to the South West Regional League in the same year. Africa Dream FC’s senior team aka Victoria Gladiatros featured in 4 FECAFOOT seasons until 2016, when management decided it was time to proceed with strategic resolutions taken in 2014. New approaches to our core strategy had emerged in 2014 with a chief aim to inspire, support and groom much younger athletes, enabling them secure enough time to grow to be all they can be. These approaches permitted us to recruit down to 8-year-old children and enabled the creation of satellite centers which saw ADISA expand across the South West Region.

By opening 3 Recruitment and Training Centers (RTCs) – Limbe RTC, Buea RTC and Tiko RTC, ADISA became the fastest growing and the largest sports academy in Cameroon in terms of trainees with more than 200 trainees in the 3 RTCs. ADISA does not have a training facility of her own. We use some public and private facilities to carry out our weekly training activities. In the same 2014, we added Track Athletics and Basketball to the Football training program and later in 2015 we introduced Floorball. However, Football and Track Athletics remain the principal focus. In 2015, we secured a grant from Total Change Missions in the Netherlands founded by former Indomitable Lions vice-captain Eyong Enoh, to support our work with the youths.

Our drive for change in the industry brought remarkable improvements in our development model and our capabilities as a service and product provider and within two years from creating the RTCs, Africa Dream FC U12 boys’ team won both the 2016 and 2017 editions of the Brasseries Top Cup in Limbe. This prompted several conversations on the need for the boys to find expression at an international platform. By the end of 2017, a grant from the Tony Elumelu Foundation (UBA) was secured for Africa Dream FC in November, which greatly enhanced our efforts in 2018 to launch an overseas tour project. Africa Dream FC finally travelled in April 2019 for the Dubai Super Cup along with 114 teams from around the world.