Squad numbers for the 23 Black Stars players to feature in the 2017 African Nations Cup have been revealed.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s final list was submitted on January 4; 10 days to the start of the tournament in accordance with CAF\u2019s rules, meaning that the numbers designated to the players had to be announced as well.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s two captains, Asamoah Gyan and Andre Ayew, reprised their numbers from the last edition of the tournament in Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n
They will wear jerseys numbered 3 and 10 respectively while Mubarak Wakaso also keeps the number 11 he used in 2015.<\/p>\n
Baba Rahman will wear jersey numbered 17, Christian Atsu has jersey numbered 7, Agyemang-Badu gets jersey numbered 8 and Afriyie Acquah has jersey numbered 6.<\/p>\n
Jordan Ayew will put on jersey numbered 9.<\/p>\n
Debutant Bernard Terkpetey will wear the number 14 while Wa All Stars goalie Richard Ofori has jersey number 12. Thomas Partey will be in jersey numbered 5 for Ghana.<\/p>\n
The Black Stars are expected to play against Uzbekistan club side\u00a0Bunyodkor in a pre-AFCON friendly on Tuesday in Dubai.<\/p>\n
Below are jersey numbers for the Black Stars in the 2017 AFCON:<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers:<\/strong><\/p>\n Razak Braimah -1, Abdul-Fatau Dauda- 16, Richard Ofori \u2013 12<\/p>\n Defenders:<\/strong><\/p>\n Harrison Afful \u2013 23, Andy Yiadom \u2013 2, Baba Rahman \u2013 17, Frank Acheampong- 22, John Boye \u2013 21, Jonathan Mensah \u2013 4, Daniel Amartey \u2013 18, \u2013 19<\/p>\n Midfielders:<\/strong><\/p>\n Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu \u2013 8, Afriyie Acquah \u00a0\u2013 6 , Thomas Partey \u2013 5, Mubarak Wakaso \u2013 11, Christian Atsu \u00a0\u2013 7, Ebenezer Ofori \u2013 15, Samuel Tetteh \u2013 20<\/p>\n Forwards:<\/strong><\/p>\n Asamoah Gyan \u00a0\u2013 3, Jordan Ayew \u00a0\u2013 9 , Andre Ayew \u2013 10, Ebenezer Assifuah \u2013 13, Bernard Tekpetey \u2013 14<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Citi Sports Desk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Squad numbers for the 23 Black Stars players to feature in the 2017 African Nations Cup have been revealed. The team\u2019s final list was submitted on January 4; 10 days to the start of the tournament in accordance with CAF\u2019s rules, meaning that the numbers designated to the players had to be announced as well. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2497,2560,3],"class_list":["post-282972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afcon-2017","tag-ghana-black-stars","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}