The President of the Ghana Football Association Kurt E. S Okraku has urged the National U-20 Male team to qualify the country for the next U-20 FIFA World Cup.
The FA president said that when he led a delegation from the federation’s executive council and the technical directorate to pay them a visit in camp.
The Black Satellites are set to leave the country for the WAFU Zone B U-20 championship which will be held in Benin.
The tournament starts on December 5 and ends on December 19.
Ghana are in the same group with Nigeria and Ivory Coast. The two top teams will qualify to the semi-final stage.
The top 2 teams will eventually qualify for the CAF U-20 Championship which serves as a qualifier for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Speaking to the team ahead of their departure for the tournament, Kurt Okraku said, “We expect Ghana to be represented by boys who are proud to wear our jerseys who will walk through the tunnel onto the pitch chest out to fight for glory for our country.
“It’s been a long while since we made the U-20 World Cup. And that history must be broken. That history must be broken by this group of players here.
“We play against Nigeria and La Cote D’Ivoire…these are sides we have beaten over and over before and we believe we have the quality to beat them and to win the group.
”It’s been five years since Ghana made the U-20 World Cup,” he concluded.
The Black Satellites made history by becoming the only African side to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2009 in Egypt.
