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Ghana set for continent's championship

17 years ago
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At the junior level, they are tagged as one of the best soccer models of the game that world has seen but on Sunday, Ghana’s junior national team are faced with the stern test of securing a place for next year’s African Junior Championship.

Ghana, two-time Africa and World Champions in the age competition after having won those titles in 1995 and 1999 have to overturn a 1-3 deficit to qualify for the African championship.

The Black Starlets come up against the junior national team of the Ivory Coast, The Junior Elephants, in the final eliminator on Sunday.

And Ghana would be seeking for crown off their hard work at the Sunyani Coronation park with qualification.

A win would secure Ghana a place for the finals of the African Junior Championship and team coach, Bashiru Hayford who will be in the stands to watch his side due to a match suspension from the first leg is expecting every heart to be put in it.

“We played our hearts out but were simply unlucky in the first leg. Nonetheless, we hope to deliver the goods this weekend,” Starlets’ trainer Coach Bashiru Hayford said after a training schedule in Sunyani.

Though anticipating qualification for the Togo finals, coach Hayford is even looking beyond the championship.

“We want to do better than our predecessors by going to Togo to win the trophy for the third time before finishing off with a world conquest,” he said.

Seven out of the 14 countries in this second and final round will join host Togo in the finals of the African Junior Championship that takes place from 11 to 25 March 2007.