Ghana Football Association General Secretary, Prosper Harrison Addo, has revealed that the FA is committed to providing Ghana’s u-23 team, the Black Meteors, the necessary resources for adequate preparations ahead of the U23 AFCON tournament in Morocco in June.
The team, led by head coach Ibrahim Tanko, aims to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games next year and make a return to the Olympics after 19 years.
Speaking to Citi Sports, Prosper Harrison Addo expressed the Association’s determination to support the team in achieving their objective.
“That is the quest; the quest is to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games next year, so the technical team, the FA and everybody is geared up, in terms of the preparations to ensure that we present a good team.
“We want to give them good preparations so they are in the position to be compete with the rest of Africa in terms of the other teams that will come for the tournament.
Three full slots are available for the Olympics, and the other is the 50/50 slot, so we want to take one of the slots for the Olympic Games”
We must be ready to do that. Immediately we qualified for the tournament in Morocco, we began preparations for the Black Meteors.
The coaches are monitoring the players for us to get the best for the tournament.
Engagement with the clubs is one other thing we are looking at so we can have the best of preparations.”
The Black Meteors missed out on the last edition of the Olympics games following the loss to South Africa on penalties in the bronze match play offs of the 2019 U 23 Africa Cup of Nations held in Egypt.
The 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations will be the 4th edition of the quadrennial African international football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
It will be hosted by Morocco between 24 June and 8 July 2023.
The top 3 teams of this edition of the tournament will qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympic men’s football tournament in Paris while the 4th-placed team will play the AFC–CAF playoffs to decide the final slot at the Olympics.