Satellites Exit Raises Question

A member of the Black Satellites management team, Jordan Anablah has expressed massive disappointment in the team that participated in the Toulon invitational Under-21 festival in France.

He said, the team carried high hopes into the competition on her second appearance in the tourney, but have been a major failure, dashing the hope the FA and management team put in them.

Mr. Anablah was speaking in a radio interview monitored in Accra yesterday after the teams elimination at the group stage of the competition

The Satellites on Tuesday, lost 1-2 to China in their last group fixture, thus ending all hopes of making it to the last four of the competition. Ghana finished bottom of Group B after losing to Portugal (0-1), and drawing one all with the Netherlands.

Mr. Anablah who is in France with the team, could not understand why a team made up of brilliant individual players could not put their game together, a situation uncharacteristic of a Ghanaian youth team.

The Ghana team to the tournament included Emmanuel Clottey, top scorer in the just ended Premiership with 14 goals. Ekow Benson, nominee for the discovery of the year award and Eric Bekoe who placed third in the goal king race.

National team coach, Claude Le Roy also gave technical advice to the team, but they proved to be the most disappointing team in the tourney, losing two of the three games they played.

The Ghana team will move on to Nuremburg, Germany, to play the senior national team of Qatar in a friendly international on June 19.