Richard Ofori emerges only local player in Ghana squad for 2017 AFCON

Published on: 05 January 2017

Black Stars coach Avram Grant called-up only one home-based player for Ghana's 2017 AFCON campaign in Gabon.

The honour went to Wa All Stars goal Richard Ofori who won the Ghana Premier League last season in Ghana.

Ofori is unlikely to feature at the AFCON barring injuries to regular first choice Razak Brimah and Fatau Dauda, a role he is glad to fulfill.

To him, the general objective of the team must be paramount and not individual glories and that if he doesn’t play and the team wins, it’s enough.

“I am not worried at all. Every team has its own way of handling things. I know my time will come so I am not worried that I am a bench warmer,” he told Happy FM.

“Mine is to pray for whoever is chosen so that the entire team progresses and not to be bitter. We need to move like a family. I need not to think of my personal interest but the general interest of the team.”

Ofori, who is the Ghana Premier League goalkeeper of the on two successive occasions has been with the Black Stars for close to two years now but is yet to be given the chance to star under coach Avram Grant.

Prior to Ghana's pre-AFCON camps in Accra and later the UAE, Ofori went on trial with top-flight side Cape Town City.

The Wa All Stars goalkeeper, was part of Ghana's squad for the World Cup qualifier against Egypt in Alexandria and had replaced Fatau Dauda as the only local goalie in the squad in recent call-ups.

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