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Salisu’s rejection has cost us the best defensive pair at AFCON- Saani Daara<\/p>\n
Mohammed Salisu reject Black Stars call up <\/b><\/p>\n
Coach Milovan Rajevac name final squad for AFCON <\/p>\n
2021 AFCON set to start on January 9 <\/p>\n
Former Ghana Football Association spokesperson, Saani Daara has expressed disappointment with Mohammed Salisu\u2019s decision to turn down an opportunity to represent Ghana at the 2021 African Cup Nations in Cameroon. <\/p>\n
Daara believes Ghana would have had the best center-back pair at the tournament in Salisu and Leicester City\u2019s Daniel Amartey. <\/p>\n
With the Southampton man not accepting the invitation, head coach Milovan Rajevac will rely on Strasbourg defender, Alexander Djiku alongside Amartey in the heart of defense. <\/p>\n
Speaking on GTV\u2019s breakfast show, Saani acknowledged the Ghana FA\u2019s effort to lure Ghanaian players performing in abroad to represent Ghana. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverything about life is not money, there is honor in service to your country. So some of these players they should take note. I will send this message because I know that the GFA has done a lot of effort including the GFA President going to meet the parents of some of the players to talk to them.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cSalisu for instance is having a good season at Southampton. Imagine we have Salisu partnering Amartey in the center of the Black Stars defense we might perhaps have the best defensive pair at the AFCON.\u201d <\/p>\n
TWI NEWS<\/span><\/p>\n According to report, talks were ongoing to name Mohammed Salisu among the Black Stars squad for the AFCON but the player turned down the invitation. <\/p>\n Which Saani Daara suggested to the GFA to involve former Black Stars players in convincing Ghanaian players based in abroad to play for Ghana. <\/p>\n \u201cI also think that the FA should try and involve some of the former players\u201d.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, Rajevac on December 31 named his final 28 man list for the tournament, which is due to start on January 9, 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Salisu’s rejection has cost us the best defensive pair at AFCON- Saani Daara Mohammed Salisu reject Black Stars call up Coach Milovan Rajevac name final squad for AFCON 2021 AFCON set to start on January 9 Former Ghana Football Association spokesperson, Saani Daara has expressed disappointment with Mohammed Salisu\u2019s decision to turn down an opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":729482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737956","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=737956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}