Black Stars’ assistant coach, Fatau Dauda, sheds light on his choice of Frederick Asare from Asante Kotoko over Dreams FC’s Solomon Agbasi for Ghana’s 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.
Asare earns his second Black Stars call-up owing to his stellar performances in the Ghana Premier League. Despite Dreams FC’s inconsistent run, Asare’s local prowess earns him the nod.
Competing against St. Gallen’s Lawrence Ati-Zigi and Hibernian’s Jojo Wollacot, Asare’s inclusion prompts questions regarding Agbesi’s exclusion, despite his impressive Confederation Cup campaign.
Dauda clarifies, stating, “Well, I have about five or six local goalkeepers in my books which I’ve been communicating with them. Their goalkeeping coaches, every week after a game, I take report, I just wish we can invite all these goalkeepers but it’s about decision and when there was the FIFA [International] break, we had 10 days in Morocco ti prepare for those two matches [against Nigeria and Uganda] and these goalkeepers were there and then we tried them, we took them through a lot of tactics so the coach [Otto Addo] have a good idea about them,” he said in an interview with Delsoka on YouTube.
“These are qualifying games and you can’t try a player now, the only time sometimes you can try a player is when you are going to play a friendly game so I am very hopeful maybe another time when there’s a friendly match, we will give another players it goalkeepers chance to play”
“So these goalkeepers, I’ve been monitoring them both locally and foreign, they are in my books, I take data from them so we have a lot of goalkeepers who can play for the national team in the future,” he ended.
Ghana’s training camp at the University of Ghana Stadium in Legon precedes matches against Mali and Central Africa Republic, aiming for redemption after a mixed start in the qualifiers.
