{"id":1199242,"date":"2022-09-06T07:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T07:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/otto-addo-names-29-man-squad-for-brazil-nicaragua-games\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T07:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T07:33:19","slug":"otto-addo-names-29-man-squad-for-brazil-nicaragua-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/otto-addo-names-29-man-squad-for-brazil-nicaragua-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto Addo Names 29-Man Squad For Brazil, Nicaragua Games |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana head coach Otto Addo named a 29-man squad for the upcoming international friendly matches later this month as preparations continue toward the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will face five-time World champions Brazil on September 23, 2022 at the Stade Oceane in Le Havre, France in the first test game.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana faces Nicaragua four days later in the second friendly in Lorca in Spain on September 27, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton defender Mohammed Salisu has been named by Addo for the first time for the two matches and could be making his debut in the White shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton and former England U21 player Tariq Lamptey has a chance to make his Ghana debut since switching allegiance and has been included in Addo&#8217;s 29-man list.<\/p>\n<p>Former Spain youth player Inaki Williams who has recently switched his international allegiance to represent the West African country has also been listed.<\/p>\n<p>Germany-born duo Stephan Kofi Ambrosius and Ransford-Yeboah K\u00f6nigsd\u00f6rffer are also listed in the Black Stars squad to face Brazil and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal star Thomas Partey is making a return to the team having missed the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Madagascar and Central African Republic in June through injury.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak attacker Daniel Afriyie Barnieh who has been in blistering form for the Black Galaxies in CHAN qualifications is the only home-based player named.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Full List:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOALKEEPERS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richard Ofori (Orlando Pirates)\u00a0Abdul Manaf Nurudeen (KAS Eupen)\u00a0Joseph Wollacott (Charlton Athletic)<\/p>\n<p>DEFENDERS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Denis Odoi (Club Brugge)\u00a0Tariq Lamptey (Brighton and Hove Albion)\u00a0Alidu Seidu (Clermont Foot)\u00a0Abdul Rahman Baba (Reading FC)\u00a0Gideon Mensah (AJ Auxerre)\u00a0Alexander Djiku (Racing Strasbourg)\u00a0Mohammed Salisu (Southampton FC)\u00a0Daniel Amartey (Leicester City)\u00a0Joseph Aidoo (Celta Vigo)\u00a0Stephan Kofi Ambrosius (Karlsruher SC)<\/p>\n<p>MIDFIELDERS<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Partey (Arsenal FC)\u00a0Iddrisu Baba Mohammed (Real Mallorca)\u00a0Elisha Owusu (KAA Gent)\u00a0Daniel-Kofi Kyereh (SC Freiburg)\u00a0Mohammed Kudus (AFC Ajax)\u00a0Andre Ayew (Al Sadd FC)<\/p>\n<p>WINGERS<\/p>\n<p>Kamaldeen Sulemana (Stade Rennes)\u00a0Daniel Afriyie Barnieh (Hearts of Oak)\u00a0Abdul Fatawu Issahaku (Sporting Lisbon)\u00a0Osman Bukari (Red Star Belgrade)\u00a0Ransford-Yeboah K\u00f6nigsd\u00f6rffer (Hamburger SV)\u00a0Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace)\u00a0Antoine Selorm Semenyo (Bristol City)<\/p>\n<p>STRIKERS\u00a0Inaki Williams (Athletic Bilbao)\u00a0Felix Afena-Gyan (US Cremonese)\u00a0Benjamin Tetteh (Hull City)<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Ghanasoccernet.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana head coach Otto Addo named a 29-man squad for the upcoming international friendly matches later this month as preparations continue toward the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The Black Stars will face five-time World champions Brazil on September 23, 2022 at the Stade Oceane in Le Havre, France in the first test game. Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25264,543,5625,79,772,24429,3250,61],"class_list":["post-1199242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-29man","tag-addo","tag-brazil","tag-games","tag-names","tag-nicaragua","tag-otto","tag-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199242","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=1199242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}