Ghana’s U-20 team—the Black Satellites—will arrive in the country on Wednesday morning ahead of their game against Hippos on Saturday.
FUFA chief executive officer Edgar Watson says the Ghana Football Association had communicated the team would arrive at 1AM aboard Ethiopian Airlines.
The two sides will face-off in the first leg of the 2013 Africa Youth Championship qualifier at Nakivubo Stadium. FUFA’s Chief Executive Officer Edgar Watson told URN on phone this evening that the arrival time and date.
As the opponents jet in, the Hippos under the watchful eyes of coach Paul Nkata and Abudallah Mubiru are camped at Kavumba on Entebbe Road.
Mujib Kasule, the FUFA Vice President in charge of the league who also sits on the Federation’s technical committee, told URN that he had attended two training sessions of the team in Kavumba and all was moving on smoothly.
Reports from Accra indicate that the Black Satellites are rearing to go after beating Premier side Eleven Wise 3-0 in a preparatory match on Sunday.
The team handled by new coach Maxwell Konadu after the head coach quit a week ago won all three arranged matches against local sides ahead of their match against Hippos with 10 goals scored and conceding one.
The Hippos who ejected Mozambique to qualify for the next round will have to keep a close eye on the likes of Benjamin Fadi, Jacob Appau and Joseph Baffour Gyewu, who have got most of the goals in the Black Satellites’ build-up games. The Black Satellites won the Africa Youth Championship and World Cup titles in 2009.
