Black Starlets head coach, Paa Kwesi Fabin, has blamed his team’s opening match defeat to Nigeria in the WAFU B U-17 tournament on a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test done on the team before the game.
According to Fabin, he was forced to form a new team just two weeks before the tournament because 20 of the 28 players he assembled failed an MRI test.
The starlets lost 4-2 to Nigeria on Saturday, leaving them in a difficult position to progress to the next stage.
“I don’t like to make excuses but about three weeks to the tournament the FA President [Kurt Okraku] asked the CAF medical team to do an MRI of our boys; and out of 28, 20 were disqualified.
“So we had to use about two and half weeks to build this team. We lost but I believe we’ll come back stronger,” coach Fabin said.
Ghana will have to overcome their Togolese counterparts in the next game to improve their chances of progressing to the next stage of the competition.
Failure to do so will result in a group stage exit and missing out on qualification for the U-17 Africa Cup of Nations, which also serves as a qualifying event for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
