{"id":13768,"date":"2011-12-14T23:50:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/excl-baffour-jordan-ayew-in-squad-for-afcon\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T23:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:50:28","slug":"excl-baffour-jordan-ayew-in-squad-for-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/14\/excl-baffour-jordan-ayew-in-squad-for-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Excl: Baffour, Jordan Ayew in squad for AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jordan Ayew and Emmanuel Baffour are part of the Black Stars<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic will name the leading scorer in the country’s top-flight in his squad for the 2012 African Cup of Nations, MTNFootball.com can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n

New Edubiase striker Emmanuel Baffour, who has scored 11 goals in 11 matches, is part of the 25-man squad to be unveiled on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Jordan Ayew, the son of legend Abedi Pele, will also be included in the squad following his excellent showing for French side Marseille.<\/p>\n

Former Germany youth international Charles Takyi gets his place in the squad as he joins the number of players hoping to make their debut in Africa\u2019s flagship tournament.<\/p>\n

As expected Turskish second division striker Dominic Adiyiah was axed from the team and goalkeeper Richard Kingson pays the price for being without a club for more than six months.<\/p>\n

Bristol City\u2019s in-form winger Albert Adomah will be disappointed that he could not make the team for the tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n

South Korea based striker Derek Asamoah and Stromgodset duo of goalkeeper Adama Kwarasey and Mohammed Abu will be fighting to make their first appearance in Africa\u2019s showpiece event.<\/p>\n

Home-based goalkeepers Daniel Agyei and Ernest Sowah will swell the number of home-based players in the squad to three as they take Kingson\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

The squad is good mix of experienced and young players with John Mensah leading out his colleagues for their camping in South Africa early next month.<\/p>\n

The Black Stars will be relying on trheir top players like Isaac Vorsah, Kwarasey, Derek Boateng, Andre Ayew, Sulley Muntari Kwadwo Asamoah and lead striker Asamoah Gyan to help them get their fifth title.<\/p>\n

The 25 selected players will head to the South African city of Rustenburg for camping ahead of the competition which starts on 21 January.<\/p>\n

The coach wanted to take 23 players to camp in South Africa but he was convinced to add two more which might have paved the way for Baffour to join the team.<\/p>\n

The Black Stars have been drawn in Group D where they will play Guinea, Mali and Botswana.<\/p>\n

Ghana squad:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goalkeepers:<\/strong>\u00a0Adam Kwarasey,\u00a0Daniel Agyei,\u00a0Ernest Sowah<\/p>\n

Defenders:<\/strong>\u00a0John Painstil,\u00a0Samuel Inkoom,\u00a0Daniel Opare,\u00a0Massawudu Alhassan,\u00a0Lee Addy,\u00a0Isaac Vorsah,\u00a0Jonathan Mensah,\u00a0John Mensah,\u00a0John Boye<\/p>\n

Midfielders:<\/strong>\u00a0Derek Boateng,\u00a0Anthony Annan,\u00a0Jordan Ayew,\u00a0Emmanuel Agyemang Badu,\u00a0Abu Mohammed,\u00a0Dede Ayew,\u00a0Sulley Muntari, Charles Takyi,\u00a0Kwadwo Asamoah<\/p>\n

Strikers:\u00a0<\/strong>Asamoah Gyan,\u00a0Prince Tagoe,\u00a0Derek Asamoah,\u00a0Emmanuel Baffour.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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