Ghana has named a provisional 28-man squad for next year’s Orange African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa.
According to the Ghana Football Association (GFA), the team will resume camping on Tuesday, December 17 in Accra for the first phase of final preparations for the tournament.
The team is dominated by players from the Ghanaian top flight except for defender Joseph Larweh Attamah, member of the Ghana U-20 squad that played at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey last July, who features for second-tier side, Tema Youth.
It includes three goalkeepers, nine defenders, 12 midfielders and four forwards, with a chunk of the team that won the recently held West African Football Union (WAFU) Zone ‘B’ tournament keeping their places.
Meanwhile, the Black Stars are due to face Mali in a friendly on Sunday, December 22 in Accra before leaving for an expected training camp in Namibia.
Ghana are housed in Group C alongside Congo, Ethiopia and Libya for the 11 January to 1 February, 2014 tournament.
Full squad
Goalkeepers: Stephen Adams (Aduana Stars), Foli Adade (Medeama), Isaac Amoako (Asante Kotoko)
Defenders: Godfred Saka (Aduana Stars), Tijani Joshua (AshantiGold), Francis Morton (Ebusua Dwarfs), Emmanuel Asante (Bechem United), Kwabena Adusei and Abeiku Ainooson (Asante Kotoko), Nuru Sulley (Hearts of Oak), Alfred Nelson (Liberty Professionals), Attamah Larweh Joseph (Tema Youth)
Midfielders: Michael Akuffo, Jordan Opoku, Richard Mpong and Yahaya Mohammed (Asante Kotoko), Jackson Owusu (Berekum Chelsea), Moro Abubakar (Hearts of Oak), Edmund Owusu-Ansah (Heart of Lions), Daniel Darkwah (Aduana Stars), Theophilus Anobaah (Medeama), Asiedu Attobrah (New Edubiase), Latif Mohammed and Francis Adjei (AshantiGold)
Strikers: Sulley Mohammed (King Faisal), Richard Gadze (Ebusua Dwarfs), Samuel Yeboah (Hearts of Lions), Kennedy Boateng (Medeama)
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