Black Starlets management member Abdul Salam confident of progress from group

Published on: 08 July 2017

Management member of the Black Starlets Abdul Salam Yakubu is confident the team will make an easy progress form the group, insisting they will pick all nine points.

Ghana have been drawn in group A with host India, South American’s Colombia and the CONCACAF powerhouse the United States of America in the FIFA under-17 world Cup.

The two times Champions will open their campaign against Colombia before renewing its rivalry with the United States. The final group game will be against host India.

Abdul Salam Yakubu, who owns division one side New Edubiase says the team can sweep aside all their opponents with ease but will have to follow the programme laid down by the technical team.

"We are taking nine points to the next stage. We can beat all the teams but it will depend on whether we can go by the program being drawn to us by the technical team after the Africa Cup," he told Happy FM.

"We have a mini tournament to partake in and afterwards, we need to embark on a special camping at a place which is closer to India."

"Having said that, we have a friendly game against India so, after drawing them in the same group we'll need to play them and use it to assess our strength before the start of the tournament."

"These are some of the things when we do, we can have it easy at the tourney but if we don't and we underrate the teams in the group, I think we'll have the shock of our lives."

Ghana are looking at winning a third World Cup at the Under-17 level after winning it in 1991 and 1995.

The Black Starlets finished second at the Africa Junior Championship in Gabon earlier this year.

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