{"id":366725,"date":"2011-04-04T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T16:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/ghana-fa-boss-tasks-u20-team-to-defend-african-title\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T16:44:47","slug":"ghana-fa-boss-tasks-u20-team-to-defend-african-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/ghana-fa-boss-tasks-u20-team-to-defend-african-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Fa Boss Tasks U20 Team To Defend African Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"100\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Patrick Akoto<\/strong><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8c29db38ellites2011.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26497 \" title=\"satellites2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8c29db38ellites2011.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s Under-20 team during the qualifiers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi is demanding the African Youth trophy from the national Under-20 team at this year\u2019s tournament in South Africa. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Black Satellites will leave Accra for a two-week training tour of Naivasha, Kenya on Tuesday before their title defence from 17 April to 2 May.<\/p>\n<p>The squad will be joined by 11 foreign-based players at their camping base before a final 21-man squad is named for the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana won the title two years ago in Rwanda for the third time in the history of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the defending champions for Africa and the World so you have a huge responsibility to discharge in this competition. Everybody will be looking up to you and a second place will not be even accepted. You have to repeat the feat that the team last chalked in Rwanda,\u201d Nyantakyi told the players after Monday\u2019s training session.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana are in pool B alongside Nigeria, Cameroon and Gambia.<\/p>\n<p>Four semi-finalists at the tournament will qualify for this year\u2019s Fifa World Youth Championship to be held in Colombia this summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghana\u2019s preliminary squad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adade Foli (Ebusua Dwarfs), Akwasi Acheampong (Liberty Professionals), Ibrahim Alhassan (Madina United), Richmond Nketiah (FC Nania)<\/p>\n<p>Rashid Sumaila (Ebusua Dwarfs), Adnan Saeed (Wa All Stars), Karim Alhassan (Hearts\u00a0of Oak), Paul Aidoo (Berekum Chelsea),<\/p>\n<p>Seidu Shaibu (Wa All Stars), Muniru Abdellah (Unattached), Jacob Kwao (Mighty Jets), Samuel Kyere (Berekum Chelsea),<\/p>\n<p>Ebenezer\u00a0Otu (Berekum Chelsea), Albert Bruce (Asante Kotoko), Mahatma Otoo (Hearts\u00a0of Oak), Jordan Ayew (Olympique Marseille), Kelvin Osei (Olympique Marseille).<\/p>\n<p>Kwame Nsor (Metz), Bright Addae (Terrassa FC), James Bissue (Hapoel Be\u2019er Sheva), Richmond Boakye-Yiadom (Genoa)<\/p>\n<p>Enoch Ebo Andoh (Benfica), Afriyie Acquah (Palermo), Masawudu Alhassan (Genoa), Gershon Koffie (Vancouver Whitecaps), Daniel Kofi Adjei (Fiorentina).<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8c29db38ellites2011.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/ghana-fa-boss-tasks-u20-team-to-defend-african-title\/\" title=\"Ghana Fa Boss Tasks U20 Team To Defend African Title\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana Fa Boss Tasks U20 Team To Defend African Title<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. By Patrick Akoto Ghana&#8217;s Under-20 team during the qualifiers Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi is demanding the African Youth trophy from the national Under-20 team at this year\u2019s tournament in South Africa. The Black Satellites will leave Accra for a two-week training tour of Naivasha, Kenya on Tuesday before their title defence from 17 April to 2 May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana Fa Boss Tasks U20 Team To Defend African Title - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/ghana-fa-boss-tasks-u20-team-to-defend-african-title\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana Fa Boss Tasks U20 Team To Defend African Title - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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