Ghana opponents South Africa to monitor three PSL players in Black Stars AFCON squad

Published on: 25 December 2014
Ghana opponents South Africa to monitor three PSL players in Black Stars AFCON squad
Awal Mohammed is one of the three players who ply their trade in South Africa

Ghana's opponents South Africa are to monitor the three Black Stars players in the preliminary squad for the 2015 African Nations Cup who ply their trade in PSL.

Of the 31 players called up, three ply their trade in the South Africa top-flight which will give them some extensive information on them ahead of the tournament in Equatorial Guinea next month.

Defensive duo Kwabena Adusei and Gyimah Edwin from Mpumalanga Black Aces and fellow defender Awal Mohammed from Maritzburg United were named in the Ghana squad for the comp

But there is no place for veteran Maritzburg United defender John Paintsil as well as his in-form striker team-mate Anas Mohammed.

Ghana are currently ranked as the fifth-best team in Africa and 37th in the world, 15 spots higher than Bafana Bafana’s ranking of 52.

The duo face-off in their final Afcon Group C match-up on 27 January 2015.

Ghana’s provisional squad for Afcon 2015:

Goalkeepers: Razak Braimah (Mirandes, Spain), Adams Stephen (Aduana Stars), Fatau Dauda (AshGold), Ernest Sowah (Don Bosco, DR Congo)

Defenders: Harrison Afful (Esperance, Tunisia), John Boye (Erciyesspor, Turkey), Jonathan Mensah (Evian, France), Jeffery Schlupp (Leicester City, England), Awal Mohammed (Maritzburg, South Africa), Kwabena Adusei (Mpumalanga Black Aces, South Africa), Baba Rahman (Augsburg, Germany), Gyimah Edwin (Mpumalanga Black Aces, South Africa), Samuel Inkoom (Houston Dynamo, USA), 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), Alfred Duncan (Sampdoria, Italy), Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough, England), Frank Acheampong (Anderlecht, Belgium), Adu Kofi (Malmo, Sweden), Ibrahim Moro (AIK Stockholm, Sweden)

Strikers: Jordan Ayew (Lorient, France), Abdul-Majeed Waris (Trabzonspor, Turkey), Asamoah Gyan (Al Ain, UAE), Kwesi Appiah (Cambridge United, England) David Accam (Chicago Fire, USA)

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