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Black Stars Win First Pre-AFCON Friendly | Coach Grant Names His Final 23 Man Squad

Avram Grant
Avram Grant

The 2015 African cup of Nations is barely a week away, and Ghana’s Black Stars are holed up in , Seville, Spain; carrying out an intensive pre tournament training camp as they aim to make the nation proud in Equatorial Guinea.

New coach Avram Grant is also trying to come to terms with the vagaries of his new team, as his task is a little more daunting than most: he is to create a winning team with a little more than three weeks preparation.

The team engaged in their first competitive friendly ahead of the tourney, playing Olhanese Club in nearby Portugal. They emerged 3-0 winners, with goals from new striker Kwesi Appiah, Christian Atsu, and Jordan Ayew.

The match was a great opportunity for Grant to assess his charges in a competitive atmosphere, and served as a final test for making the final squad. Indeed with CAF’s deadline for submission of the final squad being 7th January, Grant submitted his squad soon after the completion of the game.

Of the 26 who made the trip to Spain, three were dropped. Samuel Inkoom, Ibrahim Moro, and Kwabena Adusei; Jeffrey Schlupp also had to be dropped due to injury.

Former Hearts of Oak striker Mahatma Otoo, now playing for Songdal in Norway; got a late call to replace Abdul Majeed Warris.

The Stars take on Bundesliga side FC Freiburg on the 14th, before making the journey to Malabo for the AFCON, which commences on January 17.

Below is the final 23 man Black Stars squad for CAN 2015.

Goalkeepers: Razak Braimah (Mirandes, Spain), Fatau Dauda (AshGold) and Ernest Sowah (Don Bosco, DR Congo)

Defenders: Harrison Afful (Esperance, Tunisia), John Boye (Erciyesspor, Turkey), Jonathan Mensah (Evian, France), Awal Mohammed (Maritzburg, South Africa), Baba Rahman (Augsburg, Germany), Gyimah Edwin (Mpumalanga Black Aces, South Africa), Daniel Amartey, (FC Copenhagen, Denmark)

Midfielders: Rabiu Mohammed (Krasnodar, Russia), Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu (Udinese, Italy), Afriyie Acquah (Parma, Italy), Solomon Asante (T.P. Mazembe, DR Congo), Christian Atsu (Everton, England), Mubarak Wakaso (Celtic, Scotland), Andre Ayew (Olympique Marseille, France), Frank Acheampong (Anderlecht, Belgium), David Accam (Chicago Fire, USA)

Strikers: Jordan Ayew (Lorient, France), Mahatma Otoo (Songdal, Norway) Asamoah Gyan (Al Ain, UAE), Kwesi Appiah (Cambridge United, England).



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