Swansea coach Steve Cooper wary of Andre Ayew's Black Stars call-up

Published on: 09 March 2021

Swansea city head coach Steve Cooper has grown concerned about Andre Ayew's potential call-up to the Black Stars due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Ghana will battle South Africa, a country on UK's quarantine list, and Sao Tome and Principe in the 2021 AFCON qualifiers in the next few weeks.

If Ayew plays for Ghana, he will likely be quarantined on his return to the UK which will be a blow to Swansea as they deem him to be an important player.

“There's been some stuff written about some Premier League players. I’m not too sure exactly how that's going to look,” Cooper said.

“We haven’t even had a call-up for Andre yet to say that he’s going. I imagine we would with him being the captain of Ghana."

“But what the stance is going to be on that throughout football, I’m not too sure. But I know there are some decisions to be made going forward. We’ve got four games to play first before that, but I know that's coming."

“There have been games moved in the Champions League I would imagine for Covid restrictions."

"I haven’t given it much thought but I don’t think this situation is not just going to be about Andre and Swansea, I think there's going to be a whole host of players that represent countries outside of Europe and with the travel restrictions that are going to be in a similar boat, so I imagine football will take a bit of a lead on it and we can make a decision from there."

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