By Stephen Amos - Tweet me @sheggss
Head
coach of the home-based senior national team Maxwell Konadu says his
side will be using the WAFU tournament as preparations towards next
year’s Africa Nations Championship slated for South Africa.
Ghana
have been drawn in a ‘difficult’ Group C of the 2014 CHAN which
includes Libya, Ethiopia and Congo Brazzaville. The Championship meant
for players in their indigenous leagues kicks off on January 11 in South
Africa.
“We are planning to have
the best of preparations for the CHAN tournament. There is a WAFU
tournament which will be hosted by Ghana in the coming months; we will
be representing the country with the local Black Stars team. We will use
it as one of our preparatory tournaments among a few friendlies before
January,” Maxwell Konadu said.
Accra will be hosting the third edition of the West
African Football Union (Zone B) Nations Cup which will have eight
countries pooled in two groups to take part at the tournament that runs
from November 21 to December 1.
The
Abidjan-based Wafu Zone B has seven countries: Ghana, Nigeria, Togo,
Benin, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger and will be joined by special
guests Zimbabwe from the COSAFA region to form the 8-team tournament.
Like the CHAN, the WAFU tournament is also limited to local-based
players.
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