Captain of Ghana\u2019s U20 team, the Black Satellites, Daniel Afriyie, believes this year\u2019s group of players can emulate the example of Ghana\u2019s 2009 U20 World Cup-winning squad as they kick-start the WAFU B tournament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Black Satellites will face Nigeria in their group opener at the Stade de Gaulle in Porto-Novo before taking on Cote D\u2019Ivoire on Saturday, December 12, in their last group match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hearts of Oak winger says the morale in camp is high, reminding his colleagues of their target for coming to the tournament, which is to win the trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe want to re-write the wrongs of our predecessors and return our country to the glory days of 2009 when we won every trophy en route to lifting the World Cup in Egypt,\u201d he told the media on arrival in Benin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s time for the team to give back what the country has given them in terms of preparations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are here in Benin to do one thing; that is to qualify for next year\u2019s Africa U-20 Cup of Nations in Mauritania and then to the World Cup in Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI want to urge Ghanaians back home to keep supporting us and remember us in their prayers as we battle here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two finalists will eventually qualify for the CAF U-20 Championship, which serves as a qualifier for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: MyNewsGh.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Captain of Ghana\u2019s U20 team, the Black Satellites, Daniel Afriyie, believes this year\u2019s group of players can emulate the example of Ghana\u2019s 2009 U20 World Cup-winning squad as they kick-start the WAFU B tournament on Wednesday. The Black Satellites will face Nigeria in their group opener at the Stade de Gaulle in Porto-Novo before taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n