Black Galaxies of Ghana head coach Annor Walker says his team’s impressive performance in friendly games could see them win the 2022 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Algeria.
Walker made the declaration after the Black Galaxies held Algeria goalless in a friendly to inaugurate the Nelson Mandela Stadium in Algiers on Saturday.
The home side missed several scoring opportunities with goalkeeper Ibrahim Danlad, who was part of the Black Stars squad at the recent World Cup in Qatar, standing tall with some excellent saves.
Midfielders David Abagna and Dominic Nsobila as well as Solomon Adomako and striker Jonah Atu Quaye showed some signs of brilliance that threatened the Algerians.
The performance of his players during the match against the local Desert Warriors has given coach Walker the hope that they can excel in the competition meant exclusively for home-based players.
“I am satisfied with the performance of my elements during the Algerian friendly in which we put the last touches before the competition,” said Walker who is also the coach of Ghanaian top-flight side Samartex.
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“I am happy for the draw against the good Algerian team. We will continue to prepare with the aim of winning the title of this tournament and I believe we can win it.”
Walker spoke about his team’s first match of the tournament against Madagascar in their Group C clash in Constantine.
Ghana will face the southern Africans on 15 January and the Black Galaxies trainer says they are already prepared for the clash by monitoring the opponent.
“We have seen how the Madagascar national team plays. It is a very organized team, and we have to find the loopholes to unlock their defence.
The Black Galaxies coach commended the Foxes for their performance during the friendly match insisting they are also capable of winning the title.
“The Algerian national team is good and very organized, and it can go far in the competition and crown the title as well, and we can meet again in another match during the final of the tournament.”
Ghana will also face Sudan and Morocco in their other matches in the group.
The last time the Black Galaxies featured in CHAN was in 2014 when they got to the final and lost to Libya on penalties.
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A lot of West African supporters are looking to Ghana to cross over the line this time in the Chan tournament after coming agonisingly close twice leaving them to settle for Silver medals.
One has to give credit to the Ghana Football Federation for priming the team adequately for the tasks at hand. They arranged two high profile friendlies for the team ahead of the tournament and even before meeting and beating our Salisu Yusuf tutored Super Eagles in the final round of qualifiers.
Recently, I read an article where former Ghana goalkeeper Abukari Damba
“We also have our level. We qualified against some of the best teams and if we take this seriously, then we can [win the tournament]…. we can be a force to reckon with” in the tournament,” said the 54 year old net minder who was on the bench when the Black Stars came from behind to put dagger in hearts of Super Eagles fans in their 2:1 semi final victory against Nigeria’s golden generation (ouch!).
And head coach of the team Annoh Walker also echoed this sentiment today when he said: “We will continue to prepare with the aim of winning the title of this tournament and I believe we can win it.”
With Nigeria not in the tournament, no thanks to you-know-who, I will be following Ghana’s progress in the competition with keen interest. In their group of death are Morocco, Madagascar and Sudan: it will not be a stroll in the park for the Black Galaxies.
Ghana reached the final of the maiden CHAN tournament in Cote d’Ivoire in 2009 and has not qualified for the tournament reserved for home-based players since reaching the final of the 2014 tournament in South Africa.
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***Third Time Lucky For Ghana?***
A lot of West African supporters are looking to Ghana to cross over the line this time in the Chan tournament after coming agonisingly close twice leaving them to settle for Silver medals.
One has to give credit to the Ghana Football Federation for priming the team adequately for the tasks at hand.
They arranged two high profile friendlies for the team ahead of the tournament and even before meeting and beating our Salisu Yusuf tutored Super Eagles in the final round of qualifiers.
Recently, I read an article where former Ghana goalkeeper Abukari Damba where he was overwhelmingly optimistic of the chances of his country.
“We also have our level. We qualified against some of the best teams and if we take this seriously, then we can [win the tournament]…. we can be a force to reckon with” in the tournament,” said the 54 year old net minder who was on the bench in the 1992 Afcon semi-final when the Black Stars came from behind to put dagger in hearts of Super Eagles fans in their 2:1 victory against Nigeria’s golden generation (ouch!).
That sounds eerily all too familiar!
And head coach of the team Annoh Walker also echoed this sentiment today when he said: “We will continue to prepare with the aim of winning the title of this tournament and I believe we can win it.”
With Nigeria not in the tournament, no thanks to you-know-who, I will be following Ghana’s progress in the competition with keen interest. In their group of death are Morocco, Madagascar and Sudan: it will not be a stroll in the park for the Black Galaxies.
As already refrenced, Ghana reached the final of the maiden CHAN tournament in Cote d’Ivoire in 2009 and has not qualified for the tournament reserved for home-based players since reaching the final of the 2014 tournament in South Africa.
Well written bro. I think csn should pay you as a freelance writer…lol. kind regards from Accra
They have started bragging already and this one thing I hate about local coaches!
They always talked big but delivered less!!
He should keep quiet and let the field do the talkings!!
Nigeria with ad hoc team nearly eliminated us and this man hasn’t even learned from this!!