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– –<\/span> Lamptey is one of many foreign-born players on the Ghana Football Association\u2019s (GFA) radar as the Black Stars side prepares for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n Lamptey was born in London but has Ghanaian ancestors and is thus qualified to play for Ghana despite having never earned a senior England cap.<\/p>\n When asked about the potential of representing the Black Stars, the Brighton & Hove Albion right-back said that he is unsure at the moment.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cI\u2019m not sure yet. I\u2019ve to just keep focusing on my club football. Take a game by game and then we\u2019ll see,\u201d he said, as quoted by Ghanasoccernet.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old is a product of Chelsea\u2019s academy but departed in the summer of 2020 to join Brighton in pursuit of playing time.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> Lamptey is one of the Premier League\u2019s most highly-rated full-backs, having made 25 appearances in the English top tier this season.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n – –<\/span> – – Tariq Lamptey, an England-born right-back, has talked publicly for the first time about the idea of playing for Ghana. Lamptey is one of many foreign-born players on the Ghana Football Association\u2019s (GFA) radar as the Black Stars side prepares for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Lamptey was born in London but has Ghanaian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1060346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[94,1665,3042,3289,3160,95,3291],"class_list":["post-1060345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-black","tag-club","tag-focus","tag-lamptey","tag-playing","tag-stars","tag-tariq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nTariq Lamptey, an England-born right-back, has talked publicly for the first time about the idea of playing for Ghana.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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