Olympic team coach, Cecil Jones Attuquayefio and his backroom staff have completed the first phase of their team build up for the second round of qualifiers for the All-African Games pruning the squad number to twenty-five from a thirty-eight man team.

The Black Meteors technical team would only meet the selected 25-man squad next week to begin the second phase of preparations towards their first leg game against the Ivory Coast.

Ghana would clash with the Olympic team of the Ivory Coast in the second round of qualifiers for the All-African Games in December.

The winner of the Ghana-Ivory Coast tie would meet Nigeria.

Nigeria drew a bye and would meet the winner over the two-leg tie in the third round, which is the last qualifying hurdle in February 2007.

The Black Meteors would play at home first on the weekend of December 15-17 with the return leg slated for Abidjan next year on the weekend of January 12-14.

The winner of Zone III where Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria are group picks the single slot for the 9th All Africa Games, Men’s Football tournament to be hosted by Algeria.

Thirty-eight had been training under Cecil Jones Attuquayefio over the past months at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram.

Cecil Jones Attuquayefio however says the national handlers would still scout for players and invite those can make the grade into the national camp.

“By November, we would get our final team. We wouldn’t stop selecting players.

"We would keep on adding till we get the best for the nation,” he said.


Full Squad:

Goalkeepers
Eric Nii Baah (Asante Kotoko) Patrick Antwi and Kotei Blankson (Liberty Professionals) and Frank Andoh (AshantiGold)

Defenders
Daniel Addo, (Kessben FC), Bawa Mumuni (Liberty Professionals), Yaw Frimpong (Feyenoord Academy), Hassan Mohammed and Charles Vardis (Hearts of Oak) Hamza Abdulai (Real Sportive),, Michael Akuffo (Feyenoord Academy) and Iddrisu Yahaya (King Faisal)

Midfielders

Obed Ansah (Heart of Lions), Michael Helegbe (Liberty Professionals), Prince Antwi (AshantiGold), Anthony Annan (Hearts of Oak) and Clement Coffie (Gamba All Blacks), Eric Bekoe (Liberty Professionals) and Edward Owusu Peprah (King Faisal).

Attackers

Alex Asamoah (AshantiGold) Nafiu Iddrisu (Feyenoord Academy) Abraham Annan (Heart of Lions) Bismark Idun (Gamba All Blacks) Douglas Nkrumah and George Yamoah (Asante Kotoko)