Ghana Football Association at final stages to maintain quartet as technical team.
The General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association, Prosper Harrison Addo, says positive talks with the entourages of Otto Addo, Chris Hughton, George Boateng and Mas-Ud Didi Dramani have been held to keep them for the upcoming 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
The quartet secured Ghana’s qualification to the 2022 FIFA World Cup after being in the dugouts as the interim technical team for the playoff game against Nigeria in March.
After qualification, there have been calls to main the four for the upcoming AFCON qualifiers as well as the World Cup, including a plea by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to the GFA president to do everything possible to keep the team together.
“The quartet that delivered us the qualification will be kept together. So we need to work on the modalities of they staying with the team to go to the World Cup and so we have been working on it, engaging them positively and they have been positive so far” he said.
“We are in the final stages of the engagements. The processes are such that you do the engagements and then liaise with the ministry Youth and Sports and then you get the greenlight to move on. Be rest assured that the quartet will join us. They will plan and execute the upcoming matches as well as the four-nation tournament in Japan.
“They will also pick up in September and November we go to the World Cup.
Ghana play Japan, Chile and Tunisia ahead of World Cup Qatar 2022
Ghana will play Japan, Chile and Tunisia in a four nation tournament in June as part of preparations for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 tournament.
The tournament dubbed Kirin Super Cup 2022 will be hosted by Japan from Friday, June 10 to Tuesday, June 14, 2022 in the lead up to the mundial in Qatar.
The four participating teams - Chile, Japan, Tunisia and Ghana have all qualified for the World Cup in Qatar.
The Noevir Stadium in Misaki Park, Hyogo-ku, Kobe and the Panasonic Stadium will be the venues for the tournament.
The Black Stars will begin the tournament against Japan on Friday, June 10 while Tunisia face Chile in the other game.
On Match Day 2 - Ghana will play against Tunisia or Chile on Tuesday, June 14 regardless of the result of the match against the host nation Japan.
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