The Black Starlets’ coach, Laryea Kingston, says their only goal is to make it to the Africa U17 Cup of Nations. They play old rivals Burkina Faso in the semi-finals of the WAFU Zone U17 Cup of Nations.
This is the first time since 2017 that the Black Starlets will be able to play in the tournament again if they win.
But Kingston says they are not going into the game looking for revenge because the Young Stallions knocked Ghana out at the same stage in 2022.
“Revenge? No! That’s not what we are thinking about,” he said after the team’s last training session at the Accra Sports Stadium.
“We have not been to the AFCON after our last appearance in 2017 and so we have a responsibility to return to the tournament. We are playing Burkina Faso and we’ll approach it as one of the games requiring a different mentality but not because we want revenge.
“We know this is a most important game of this WAFU Tournament for us and we have to give everything for it. But we are certainly not going for revenge,” he added.
Ghana hasn’t been to the U17 Cup of Nations since 2017. That year, coach Paa Kwesi Fabin led the team to second place.
