Ghana U-17 coach Paa Kwesi Fabin rubbishes claims Toku, Danlad and others have been dropped

Head Coach of the National under-17 team, the Black Starlets, Coach Paa Kwesi Fabin has rubbished reports that Emmanuel Toku and goalkeeper Dan Lad Ibrahim have been dropped from the squad.

The Coach has called 25 players to start training ahead of the FIFA world Cup in October to be held in India and missing in the squad was two times MVP at the Africa Junior Championship Emmanuel Toku and the safest pair of hands DanLad Ibrahim.

However, the former Kotoko Coach has explained the reason for letting these players stay at home but also indicated they will all be recalled in the squad.

''We want to use a week to look at some new players that we have got, so we have asked them [six players dropped] to stay in the house for a week and we have given them training programs so that after the week that we have seen the new ones, we select and send those we don't need home and the players dropped will come and join on Sunday so that we start the full-scale preparation,'' Coach Fabin told Joy Sports.

''They haven't been dropped. In fact, they are our key players,'' he added.

Ghana qualified for the World Cup after they ended the Africa Junior Champions as runners up.

The West African Country is chasing a third world cup trophy after winning in in 1991 and 1995.