Hosts Black Starlets of Ghana got their campaign off to a perfect with a dominant 5-1 win against Côte d’Ivoire, in the opening game of the 2024 WAFU Zone B U-17 Championship on Wednesday.
A brace from Joseph Narbi and a goal each from Godfred Srapong, Harve Gbafa, and Mark Kagawa secured the win in Group A.
Narbi gave the Black Starlets the lead after 27 minutes and got his side’s second three minutes to the break.
Sarpong added the third goal with a perfect volley moments after the break.
Côte d’Ivoire pulled a goal back but Gbafa headed home Ghana’s fourth before Kagawa made it 5-1.
The tournament will continue today (Thursday) in Group B when Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets will take on Burkina Faso.
The WAFU B U-17 tournament is the qualifiers for the U-17 AFCON.
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Age grade fraud. Cheating. Age kwanu kwezye nuhhhhh.
These lads are U17.
If you don’t get it, forget about it.
Hahahaha!
Thief man knows thief man…lol
In 2016, 26 players from your u17 team were caught age cheating in the Africa u17 tournament. You cheats! Luckily NMR is available to expose any such age cheating so stop talking rubbish and pray your team qualifies from the group
On a slightly different topic Yaw, why did Ghana decline to participate in the CAF qualifiers for the 2024 Under-17 women’s world cup? That for me is very disappointing.
Number one, Ghana were the first African country to win bronze at the U-17 Women’s World Cup. Number Two Ghana currently has some truly promising Under-20 Women’s footballers as they are currently WAFU and Africa Games champions. So it will seem to me that Ghana would want to replenish that stock by exposing the U-17 girls.
Anyways, perhaps there is an unavailable reason why Ghana chose not to participate in this World Cup qualifiers…