Black Stars will face Malawi in the second-leg in Lilongwe this month
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has given debut call-ups to Mubarak Wakaso and Daniel Nii Adjei for the return fixture against Malawi in the final qualifier for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations this month.
The Black Stars coach also recalled five players including John Pantsil in his 21-man squad for the game in Lilongwe on 13th October thanks to their impressive outings for their clubs.
Also returning to the Black Stars are David Addy, Jonathan Mensah, Rabiu Mohammed and goalkeeper Philemon McCarthy.
Derek Boateng, Daniel Opare, Jordan Ayew and Samuel Inkoom are among the players left out of the squad as Ghana fights to qualify for the tournament in South Africa early next year.
Wakaso, who plays for Spanish top-flight side Espanyol, has been given his first senior call-up thanks to his flying start in the Spanish La Liga and his versatility.
The midfielder who also plays in defence as a left-back has played all five matches for his club so far this season and scored one goal from a piledriver.
Asante Kotoko midfielder Daniel Nii Adjei, who is the reigning Ghana Premier League best player, also gets his debut invitation to the Black Stars having also impressed in the off-season.
Paintsil is among the five players returning to the team as he looks to reclaim his favourite right-back position after a seven month absence.
The senior defender’s lack of action led to his exclusion but has been in good form for Hapoel Tel Aviv since returning to the Israeli side in August means he takes the places of Opare and Inkoom.
Mensah, who has not played for the Black Stars since a serious knee injury in January, also make a return as he has been playing regularly for his French club Evian in Ligue 1.
His team-mate Mohammed also makes a return in his roller-coaster Black Stars career while Portugal-based David Addy also returns after a three-year absence thanks to his form with Vitoria Guimaraes.
Hearts of Oak goalkeeper Philemon McCarthy, who has long been regarded by many, as a competent Black Stars first choice shot-stopper also makes a return after a six-year absence
The Black Stars are seeking to qualify for next year’s finals in South Africa after winning the first leg 2-0 at home last month.
Squad
Goalkeepers: Adam Kwarasey (Stromgodset, Norway), Philemon McCarthy (Hearts of Oak), Fatau Dauda (AshantiGold)
Defenders: John Paintsil (Hapoel Tel Aviv, Israel), Harrison Afful (Esperance, Tunisia), David Addy (Vitoria Guimaraes, Portugal), John Boye (Rennes, France), Isaac Vorsah (Red Bull Salzburg, Austria), Jonathan Mensah (Evian Thonon Gaillard, France).
Midfielders: Anthony Annan (Osasuna, Spain), Daniel Nii Adjei (Asante Kotoko), Mubarak Wakaso (Espanyol, Spain), Emmanuel Agyemang Badu (Udinese, Italy), Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus, Italy), Christian Atsu (Porto, Portugal), Solomon Asante (Berekum Chelsea), Andre Ayew (Marseille, France), Rabiu Mohammed (Evian, France)
Strikers: Emmanuel Clottey (Esperance, Tunisia), Abdul Majeed Warris (Hacken, Sweden), Asamoah Gyan (Al Ain, UAE).
Source: MTNFootball.com
Good squad…..Wakaso will bring steel & toughness against the rough play of the Malawians.Verily,verily I say unto you,Malawians will be laughing at the wrong side of their mouths as coach Appiah leaves no stone unturned in our quest to qualify for AFCON 2012.
I meant AFCON 2013……typo error.Keeper Philemon,u are welcome back!
WHERE IS ABEYIE? WHERE IS ABEYIE? WHERE IS ABEYIE? WHERE IS ABEYIE? WHERE IS ABEYIE?………………….
PAINSTIL SHOULD NEVER BE CALLED TO PLAY FOR GBSTAR. HE IS USELESS. HIS TIME IS OVER! OPARE IS MUCH BETTER
AA, CANT U SEE THAT AGYEMAN BADU IS HALF FIT AND NOT NEEDED? LEAVE HIM TO PAY HIS DUES WITH UDINESE. YOU WILL RUIN THIS BOY’S CAREER EVEN BEFORE HE BUY’S HIS MOMMY A HOUSE!
IS A HALF FIT BADU BETTER THAN YARTEY OR ABEYIE? IS SOLOMON ASANTE BETTER THAN ABEYIE OR YARTEY?
WARRIS IS GARBAGE. THE GUY PLAYS IN ABREWA POSSO POSSO LEAGUE IN SWEDEN. CALL BOAKYE YIADOM INSTEAD. HE IS TALL AND CAN EVEN SCORE WITH HIS HEAD. WARRIS SHOULD NEVER SEE A GBSTAR JERSEY UNTIL HE LEAVES SWEDEN……
Just shut up before I knock your teeth out as you are speaking!!!
BITCH, I DARE U, UR PAPPY N UR ENTIRE CLAN. U SON OF A BITCH. U IDIOT, GHMAN. CAN U SPELL THINK N COMMON SENSE? USELESS MODAFUCKA! U GOT A LOT OF NERVE..
NOW HERE COME THE “COMPUTER COACHES”. AND THIS IS WHAT THEY WILL SAY” WHY DID HE CALL THIS GUY, HE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD”
WE ONLY HAVE ON HEAD COACH, PLEASE LET US ALL SUPPORT HIM. HE WILL NEED IT, AND THE BOYS WILL TOO
RAS, OF COURSE IM ALL ABOUT SUPPORT. BUT TO GET ME TO SUPPORT A STUDENT/COACH WHO CALLS USELESS PLAYERS AND ACHIEVES MEDIOCRE RESULTS IS QUITE BENIGN TO ME…….U CALLING ME A COMPUTER COACH? CAN U SPELL COMMON SENSE?
what ever god desired is over lets prays for them to wins thaks
I can see Akwasi Appiah has good ears on the ground. i pray he has good eyes too. Wakaso is a good call. I am not too sure if leaving Jordan out is helpful for the talented chap but anyways I know A.A is using this chance to assess Warris performance in this game BUT please AKWASI start our best striker GYAN in the game and replace him only after GHANA is 3 goals up. MORE CHEERS!
I can see Akwasi Appiah has good ears on the ground. i pray he has good eyes too. Wakaso is a great call. I am not too sure if leaving Jordan out is helpful for the impressive chap but anyways I know A.A is using this chance to assess Warris performance in this game BUT please AKWASI start our best striker GYAN in the game and replace him only after GHANA is 3 goals up. MORE CHEERS!
I can see Akwasi Appiah has good ears on the ground. i pray he has good eyes too. Wakaso is a great call. I am not too sure if leaving Jordan out is helpful for the chap but I know A.A is using this chance to assess Warris performance in this game BUT please AKWASI start our best striker GYAN in the game and replace him only after GHANA is 3 goals up. MORE CHEERS!
I can see Akwasi Appiah has good ears on the ground. i pray he has good eyes too. Wakaso is a great call. I am not too sure if leaving Jordan out is helpful for the impressive chap but anyways I know A.A is using this chance to assess Warris performance in this game BUT please AKWASI start our best striker GYAN in the game and replace him only after GHANA is 3 goals up. MORE CHEERS
BITCH, I DARE U, UR PAPPY N UR ENTIRE CLAN. U SON OF A BITCH. U IDIOT, GHMAN. CAN U SPELL THINK N COMMON SENSE? USELESS MODAFUCKA!
KWAME, IGNORE MY COMMENT. ITS NOT MEANT FOR U, BUT GHMAN THE BORN RETARD. I AGREE, WAKASSO IS A SOLID CALL. MY ISSUE WITH WARRIS IS THIS. WE FIRST SAW WARRIS AGAINST THE CHILE FRIENDLY. WARRIS HAS GOTTEN A LOT OF CALL UPS TO PLAY FOR GH AND STILL HASNT DONE ANYTHING TO WARRANT FURTHER CALLS. THIS GUY HAS BEEN CALLED OVER 3 TIMES TO PLAY FOR GH, AND STILL HAS NO GOAL UNDER HIS NAME. YET, HE GOES TO SWEDEN N SCORES IN BUNCHES. EVEN IBRAHIMOVIC TOLD THE WORLD THAT THE SWEDISH LEAGUE WAS CRAP. I SAW WARRIS SCORE 4/5 GOALS AGAINST A TEAM IN SWEDEN AND I COULD TELL THAT THE SWEDISH LEAGUE WAS SHIT. UNTIL HE LEAVES THE SWEDISH LEAGUE TO A BETTER, MORE COMPETITIVE LEAGUE. PLS, DONT CALL HIM TO GBSTAR. BOAKYE YIADOM AND ABEYIE NEED CALL UPS OVER WARRIS, SOLOMAN ASANTE
Ghanasoccernet paaa how can you say phil maccarthy has been called after six years absence when he indeed went to Angola 2010 u guys always make people talk wrongly abt u with ur zuuuuku type of journalism
No Jordan? AA must have lost its mind. He’s the only, i repeat, ONLY Ghanaian striker playing in a topleague right now.
Has the “top league right now” transalated into ability to perform competently for the Black Stars?
The guy undoubtedly has skills, but for me he has no killer instincts. He dribbles too much for a striker when infact he should be shooting and finding targets. You will notice that he struggled in the last game in Accra and was consequently taken off.
I think the decision to rest him for this game is cool so as to give chance to others. He might get the chance to prove himself again.
Good day bro
I think is a good squard despite the absent of Abeyei,guys let give AA the maximum support and I believe he will deliver, @ least he has call up Wakasu which all of us no what he is doin in spain.
i think coach Appiah changes the squad too much>>>…….still waiting for the return of Abeyie!!!
i would like all those clamoring for Abeyie to tell us which team he plays for….IT IS LIKE SOME OF US DONT KNW WHAT IS GOIN ON
abeyie is playing in one of the top flight team in greece who are playing in europa league…..
Panathinaikos.
I’m happy with the squad. My only concern is why Jordan and Abeyie were not called up. Even if you do not intend to use him (Ayew), guys like him are the future of Ghanian football. Being around the rest of the team helps to intill a sense of belonging and encourages bonding within the team.
Not being called up even though you’re performing contraticts the strategy that our coach is trying to employ in the National team.
I guess we will all have our say here. Honestly, i have not been impressed with the play of the Black Stars since AAA took over. Its always a classless, tacticless display after the other. Sometime ago, one will feel confident when we are playing against Brazil even in their own country but now we can’t say so. We almost lost to China, played badly against Malawi and lost to Liberia… Pls, we shd be careful here, its good to have a local coach but its better to have a black stars team which keeps improving… I don’t see that in our team now… Akwasi Appiah has not impressed me with his tactics so far… hmmmmm, In Rajevac, Dujkovic and even Stevanovic’s time, we will not be fretting because of Malawi…
All those 3 failed coaches are unemployed! Only morons would employ such coaches!!!
A coach may implement tactical plan for the team, but it takes time for such plans to gel. Unfortunately for Ghana, unlike Malawi, Zambia or Liberia, our coach do not have the luxury of camping the players over long periods for training and team cohesion. Given the array of talents we have, if Ghana gets up to a month’s non-stop training session, we will demolish teams like Malawi, Liberia and even Zambia. It is a difficult task to be coach of Ghana given that our players are simply not available for training and planning before matches.
I think you have a point there. In Djukovic,Milovan Rajevac, and the latest departee Goran, there was no way, i repeat NO WAY Ghana will ever have doubts agaist a side like Malawi.
Unfortunately under our own man-who i support though- we always sruggle even to draw games.
The three daparted Serbain Coaches also never had the luxury of camping the Stars for long periods yet they performed well.In Angola,Milo reached the AFCON finals with a depleted squad. It all boils down to TACTICS and GAME PLAN.
Please AA, you have my support but please improve your tactical game. Ghana is tired of surviving through games
Good squad bt exclusion of Adiyiah is still unfair
Adiyiah is not different from Gyan. Give them more than five chances before they score one. We do not need two of such players in our team.
IF APPIAH CAN KEEP THIS TEAM FOR AT LEAST FOUR MATCHES WE CAN BE WORLD CHAMPIONS!
What a squad.AA you are Ghana morinoh.
@GH FUO, u re right i think boakye yiadom deserves a place in de team. AA must correct hes mistakes nd call dis chap in our next game
Woww…. No Dereck Boateng, no Jordan, no Opare ? and no Inkoom ? What is Pantsail doing over there ?
Ghana should call “Memphis Depay” young half Ghananian attacker from PSV Eindhoven … For real good good player !!!!
And please…. please please…. Where is Quincy !!! -___-
Ghana should call “Memphis Depay ” half Ghanaian youngster of PSV Eindhoven !!!!
Did he say he wants to play for Ghana?
coach AA remember Daniel Agyei Oooh…he was part of your AAG success last year, of which later you became the blackstar head coach!!!!. He is still a promising goalie don’t listen to what others say or bribe you. Nana Akwasi Asare too deserves your call up as well as Q.O. Abeyie. They’ve all got potentials its high time you sit down and access their games and qualities. Goodluck BS…go for victory.
Hahahaaaa those of u who thk JP will never be go and hug transformer. Trust me very soon essien will also join the squad. It’s only a child who will analys football not base on carrent form but age. Anka ebe ye den na aye wo ya
Hahahaaa those of u who thk JP will never bounce back shld go and hug transformer. Trust me essien will also join the team b4 CAN 2013. It is only a child who will analyse football base on age and not carrent form. Anka ebe ye den na aye wo ya. JP we love uuuuuu.
Leave the coach alone to do his work. We hv sumtin 2 say if he fails us bt as at nw we shd surport him in tactics nd prayers so dat we all cn be proud. GO BLACKS!
Good post!!
Good team but once again Quincy is not included. I wonder what the issue is. I wonder if Paintsil is supposed to start. I hope not, but I suspect he will. We might as well use Afful on the right and Addy on the left. We shall see.
Players shouldn’t be called up and pressed into system or tactical plans and visions!I see players being picked b’cos of their present form at their clubs and not b’cos they fit into the tactical plans and systems of the technical team. This forces the technical team to play the players in “forced” roles or positions.Because of limited time, they don’t get used to those positions and this brings about a lot of tactical indiscipline. This is also aggrevated by the constant changes in the call-ups! It would be good if the technical team would have clear-cut tactical plans and systems and settle down on a constant squad with very minimal(form-related) changes. In so doing , the squad would be more able to master and maximise their tactical play and positions and at the same time get used to each other on the field of play. Iwish AA and the technical team all the best and success!!
You do have a good point, but I think what is more important is to have a regular first Eleven. However, the fringe players can be shuffled and used as substitutes as a way of giving new talents and promising players the opportunity to prove themselves and work their way into the first eleven. You can afford to have a regular 25 players at club level, but on a national level it is not always feasible, since you can’t just buy players. You use what the country can produce.
Ghanafou kasa papa!! If that is the case why AA left Jane Ayieyam behind. We need prolific strikers and she is better than our boy strikers.
I hate inconsistentencies but loved persistence, AA should by now know his reliable assets, groom them in order to gel for any team in the world. As at now we do not know AA adopted system of play, either 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 or 4-3-3. We live our agoro football make sure you reincarnate it.
@watataman, i think you have the best comment of the day. when looked the guys called up, i started pondering , when exactly we were going to have a team that can play together more cohesively. Its as if the friendly matches we play are of no use and rather meant for the mafia’s in the FA to collect part of new player call up appearance fees.
We need to have a squad that cannot be easily permeable by any up and coming player. The BlackStars should be a unique brand on its own, so that only the very best of the new and up and coming players are infused into the team at a particular time to aid the team’s progression. A perfect example is Christian Atsu. In that way, other players looking to show partial glamor and cameo appearances at their clubs aiming to have a CALL(John Painstil), will have to strive to be the very best in their respective teams to finally earn a Black Stars call up. This is how i think Ghana can keep a very formidable side.
Good Squad… Well done.
seems like Akwasi Appiah is now back to his senses now!happy for the exclusion of inkoom,derek boateng and daniel opare but wasn’t expecting jordan to be excluded from the squard.the inclusion of david addy,jonathan mensah and wakaso is a right call.hope to see abeyie,adomah and boakye yiadom in our subsequence matches.i keep on saying that,clottey and afful are not blackstar material.whilst warris is not not ripe for the stars.Abeyie is 20times better than the above mentioned players as a striker.i pray that God gives Akwasi Appiah the eye to figure out active and inform players.we want the best to don the blackstars jersey.no no payo!
REAL, I CAN TELL FROM JUR COMMENT THAT U ARE NOT SURE OF YOUR SENSE. U ARE A VERY COMSI COMSA, CONFUSION RIDDLED GUY. WAT DO U MEAN BY AFFUL N CLOTTEY ARE NOT GBSTAR MATERIAL? BUT U THINK JORDAN AYEW IS GBSTAR MATERIAL?….LOL AFFUL HAS PLAYED FOR GBSTAR SINCE 2008 AND PLAYING WELL WITH HIS CLUB, CLOTTEY AS WELL. CAN JORDAN AYEW SCORE AS MANY GOALS AS CLOTTEY IF HE WERE TO PLAY FOR B. CHELSEA? I AGREE THAT ABEYIE AND B YIADOM NEED TO BE CALLED, BUT DATS IT!
Abaa… Leave AA alone to do his work.Good squad.
IF ONLY GHANA CAN COERCE THIS YOUNG CHAP TO PLAY FOR BLACKSTARS OUR STRIKING PROBLEMS IS OVER. GOOD MIDFIELD COMBINED WITH SHARP STRIKERS. THE NAME IS MEMPHIS DEPAY! THIS CHAP IS THE REAL DEAL. SPEED, ACROBATISM, ATHLETISM AND DRIBBLING BE WHAT, ALL IN ONE.
GFA AT LEAST TALK TO HIM, YOU NEVER KNOW UNTIL YOU TRY.. WE DONT WANNA LOSE ANOTHER BALLOTELLI OR WELBECK. MEMPHIS DEPAYYY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yIOa9IkG2o
HE PLAYS PSV EINDHOVEN. WATCH SOME OF HIS SKILL IN THIS VIDEO.
OMG…this kid is sick…GFA probably never even heard of him what a shame
IF I WERE ALUGUNTUGUI AA, I WOULD MAKE THE FF CHANGES AND THIS IS WHY….
1.SAMMY ADJEI OVER MCCARTHY: SAMMY HAS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN ANY GH GOALIE RIGHT NOW. IF HE IS FIT, WHY LEAVE HIM? SAMMY IS THE BEST TO TUTOR KWARASAY….SAMMY KNOWS AFRICAN SOCCER LIKE THE BACK OF HIS HAND. HE IS A QUALITY VETERAN. GFA, DO AWAY WITH UR DIFFERENCES N CALL HIM.
2. OPARE OVER PAINSTIL: PAINSTIL N DEREK BOATENG ARE THE NEW ERIC ADDO AND MATHEW AMOAH. IT IS TIME THEY RETIRED PERMANENTLY FROM GBSTAR. WE DONT NEED THEM ANYMORE. THESE 2 ARE TOO GREEDY. IF IT WERE UP TO THEM, THEY WILL PLAY FOR GBSTAR UNTIL THEY DIE….AA, GROW UP AND MAKE JAMES BROWN MAN TYPE SELECTION. CALLING PAINSTIL IS AN EMOTIONAL CALL UP. PAINSTIL WILL SOON BE RELEASED BY HIS ISREALI CLUB BCOS HE SUCKS! IF U HAVE ANYTHING GOOD TO GIVE HIM, TELL HIM TO GO TO SAUDI LEAGUE OR CHINA. OPARE IS A QUALITY DEFENDER.
3. YARTEY OVER AGYEMAN BADU: I LIKE RABIU, HOWEVER I THINK AA SHOULD HAVE CALLED YARTEY OVER BADU. BADU WAS INJURED LAST TIME. MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY, HE NEEDS TO BE LEFT ALONE TO CONCENTRATE ON HIS CLUB DUTIES. YARTEY AND RABIU ARE EQUALLY GOOD TO PLAY IN THE MIDFIELD FOR NOW. A HALF FIT BADU IS USELESS TO GBSTAR. LEAVE HIM AND LET HIM FIGURE OUT HIS POSITION WITH UDINESE JUS LIKE ESSIEN. AFTERALL, WITHOUT UDINESE, THERE WILL BE NO BADU TO PLAY FOR GBSTAR.
4. ABEYIE OVER SOLO ASANTE…ANYONE WHO TELLS ME THAT ASANTE IS BETTER THAN ABEYIE IS EITHER ON COKE OR VERY CLOSE TO MENTAL ANKAFUL…TOURCHMENT!
5. B. YIADOM OVER WARRIS: WARRIS PLAYS IN A FOOLISH LEAGUE. HE HAS BEEN CALLED TO PLAY FOR GBSTAR OVER 3 TIMES AND STILL HASNT SCORED A GOAL. WHY DOES HE CONTINUE TO GET CALLED? SIKA NTI ANAAA? UNLESS HE GOES TO A BETTER, MORE COMPETITIVE LEAGUE. DONT EVER CALL HIM BACK TO GBSTAR.
SOMETIMES, I DONT UNDERTSAND AA. I QUESTION HIS METALITY SOMETIMES. THIS GUY CALLS PLAYERS LIKE HE DRINKS PALMWINE. SOMETIMES I WONDER IF HE PUTS ANY THINKING INTO HIS SELECTIONS. WE PLAYED MALAWI N LIBERIA, AND THIS AA GUY CALLED PLAYERS LIKE COFFIE, INJJURED B CHELSEA GOALIE, HALFIT BADU, UNRIPE JORDAN AYEW, USELESS WARRIS….I MEAN THE B CHELSEA GOALIE WAS JUST INJURED IN THE GAME AGAINST ZAMALEK, SO WHY DID HE EVEN CALL HIM, U KNOW? THIS SQUAD IS A GOOD SQUAD, I WONT EVEN LIE. HOWEVER, AA MUST STICK WITH THIS SQUAD AND MAKE MINOR CHANGES LIKE I HAVE MENTIONED. IF JONATHAN MENSAH OR VORSAH OR BOYE GETS INJURED, U BRING IN AKAMINKO OR AWAL TO SHORE UP. IF BADU IS HALF FIT, CALL YARTEYOR WAKASSO OR RABIU..ETC. THIS SQUAD WILL BRING HIM GLORY. KEEP THIS SQUAD AND ONLY REPLACE THEM IF SOMEONE GETS INJURED OR LOSES FORM…STOP CALLING HALFIT PLAYERS LIKE BADU AND B CHELSEA GOALIE. STOP CALLING USELESS PLAYERS LIKE WARRIS, JORDAN AYEW AND EVEN SOLOMAN ASANTE. CALL ABEYIE, YARTEY, YIADOM, SAMMY ADJEI.
where is Prince tagoe, and Jordan Ayew
jst 1 chance 4 opare at de ryt bak nd u drop him. Dats unfair
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