Their preparations have been flying quite under the radar but Ghana’s U-20 Men’s football team are currently in Senegal getting ready to take on the rest of the continent.
The Black Satellites have had a stunning record in recent years, and would be hoping to keep that run intact at these championships. To that end, it helps that they have one of the most decorated youth level coaches in the world.
Sellas Tetteh is that man, having led the side to African and World Cup glory in 2009. After a brief hiatus, he returned to lead the same side to the world cup semi finals in 2013, having earlier finished 2nd at the 2013 African championships. Having made the final in both appearances, he would be expected to take the team at least that far this time around as well.
The Black Satellites qualified with a comfortable 4-1 aggregate win over Gabon last August, sealing their place at this tourney. The team was domiciled in Turkey for the past fortnight, getting ready for an onslaught on the tournament they haven’t won since 2009.