YAW PREKO BACKS KWASI APPIAH TO HAND JORDAN A STARTING ROLE IN GHANA-USA MATCH

Former Black Stars striker, Yaw Preko is urging Black Stars Coach Kwasi Appiah to hand striker Jordan Ayew a starting role in Ghana’s opening World Cup Group G match against the USA, if the former Asante Kotoko Head trainer believes the Olympique Marseille attacker impresses at training. 

Jordan Ayew came off the bench in Ghana’s final pre-World Cup friendly against the South Korea and bagged in a hat-trick to aid the Black Stars to a 4-0 victory over the Asians after the 22- year- old replaced injured Majeed Waris beating a 15 year jinx as a Black Stars player to get a hat-trick since 1999 when Yaw Preko scored three times in Ghana’s 5-0 win over Eritrea at the Accra Sports Stadium.

 

The former national star now the Assistant coach of the national under 20 male team [Black Satellites] is therefore expecting the 53 year old soft-spoken coach to feature Jordan Ayew against USA if the player impresses at training.

“There is no harm in trying .The boy can run! The boy is dynamic. He is always in movement and you need an attacker with those qualities. He is just coming from a hat-trick and his confident is high. There is no harm in trying because I heard Waris is injured so we don’t have any attacker to help Gyan up front”, Yaw Preko told Power FM. 

“The only attacker we have who can support Gyan up front is our attacking midfielder which is Kevin-Prince Boateng. It depends on his training. What he does at training. We have to use him. I think that is the reason why we took him there. We didn’t take him there for him to just sit on the bench. We took him to go and play so if is the time for him to play I don’t have a problem with that because I think he is up to the task. If you don’t use him, you won’t know his qualities”.

Ghana play the USA next Monday before facing Germany on June 21 at the Estadio Castelao in Fortaleza, and close their Group G campaigne at the Estadio Nacional against Portugal on June 26 in Brasilia. Abdul Majjed Waris is likely to be ruled out of the Black Stars opener against the USA, meaning Coach Kwasi Appiah would have three attackers Asamoah Gyan, Kevin Prince Boateng and Jordan Ayew to rely on.

By Frank Darkwah

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