Dropping players is a tedious task - Mercy Tagoe

Black Queens head Coach, Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo says it was difficult naming her final list of 20 players for this year’s West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Zone B tournament.

Tagoe made her final list from the 25 players who were in camp having made the cut from the initial 30 invited to prepare for the tournament.

The Queens are due to leave for Abidjan on Friday to begin their title defence on May 9 against Mali in Group B which also has Nigeria and Niger.

‘Honestly, it was a tedious task in trimming the squad [from 30 players to 20]. Because, those that couldn’t make it to the final squad are equally good as those in camp currently,” she told NBSportslive.

”It’s just that, we had more than excess in certain positions and thus we had to let go of some of them.

”It’s difficult and painful [on the part of the players] to train and get close only to be eliminated by virtue of limited spaces available. It was difficult.”

The final squad

Goalkeepers

Fafali Dumehasi – Police Ladies

Azume Adams – Prisons Ladies

Barikisu Isshaku – Northern Ladies

Defenders

Janet Agyir – Hasaacas Ladies

Gladays Amfobea – LadyStrikers FC

Justice Tweneboa- Ampem Darkoa

Ellen Coleman – Ladystrikers FC

Anatasia Akyaa – Sea Lions FC

Blessing Agbomadzi – Sea Lions Ladies

Rita Okyere – Prisons Ladies

Midfielders

Grace Asantewaa- Ampem Darkoaa Ladies

Diana Weige – Halifax Ladies

Juliet Acheampong – Prisons Ladies

Grace Animah – Police Ladies

Evelyn Badu – Hasaacas Ladies

Linda Addai – Soccer Intellectuals

Forwards

Mavis Owusu – Ampem Darkoaa

Alice Kusi – Fabulous Ladies

Mukarama Abdulai -Northern Ladies

Jane Ayieyam – Police Ladies