The Ghana U-17 team, Black Starlets have departed Accra for Casablanca for training tour.  Two friendly games with their Moroccan counterparts are also in the programe. The team will be based in Morocco for three weeks where they will engage their counterparts in two separate friendly matches.

Ghana failed to qualify for the 2021 Total U-17 Africa Cup of Nations. As they crashed out of the competition following a 3-1 defeat to Cote D’Ivoire. However, the GFA has decided not to change the development plan of the team.

Coach of the side, Ben Fokuo will use the matches to prepare players especially the younger ones who are eligible to play for the U-17 next year.

It is also refreshing to mention that some U-15 players have been selected to play with their colleagues in the U-17. The initiative aims at preparing them ahead of the 2023 WAFU U-17 Cup of Nations.

That gives the development of the team two different outlooks, thus now and future.

This is the first trip for the Black Starlets since their recent adventure in the WAFU-B Under-17 Cup of Nations in Togo.