Ghana coach Kim Lars names squad to begin pre-WAFCON training camp

Head coach of Ghana women’s national football team Kim Lars Bjorkegren has named a provisional 24 players for the final preparations of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations next month in Morocco.

The pre-WAFCON traning camp squad by the Ghana Swedish coach includes four home-based players with notable names included in the list.

The players from the Malta Guinness Women’s League include former Black Princesses goalkeeper Afi Amenyeku, Ampem Darkoa duo Comfort Yeboah and Nancy Amoh as well as Kumasi Academy’s Kerrie McCarthy.

The other names invited for preparatory exercise include Princella Adubea, Doris Boaduwaa (Ghana’s women’s player of the Year), Evelyn Badu, Grace Asantewaa, Anasthesia Achiaa, and Portia Boakye.

Photo Credit – GFA.

The team will start preparations ahead of their return to the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after missing out of the competition for the past seven years.

Coach Bjorkegren has a mountainous task of making an impact in Morocco after struggling to record impressive results in his past friendly games where the Black Queens have only recorded a win in six games. In their recent two-game international friendly series against Ivory Coast in Abidjan, Ghana drew one match and lost the other.

The Black Queens are paired in Group C for the WAFCON against Mali, Tanzania and South Africa.