The Ghana Football Association will next week ask FIFA to ratify Adam Larsen Kwarasey’s switch from Norway to Ghana, but are yet to act on the case of Kevin-Prince Boateng and Jeffery Sarpong because they have not formalised their interest.
GFA vice-president Fred Pappoe tells KickOffGhana that the football association will be seeking the switch next week and expects the process to be a formality following the player’s own expression of interest.
The process will involve providing proof of the player’s Ghanaian roots and evidence that he has not appeared for Norway in a competitive senior game.
The 21-year old expressed his desire to play for Ghana as far back as November 2007 when he said “it has always being a dream for me to play in the colours of Ghana”.
But he only made his interest official with a written commitment to the Ghana Football Association recently.
The tall goalkeeper was born in Oslo to a Norwegian mother and Ghanaian father and his spent his entire career in Norway first playing for Valaregen before making the switch to Stromgodset.
Pappoe says while the GFA have had informal chats with Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Boateng and Ajax man Sarpong about playing for Ghana, the players have yet to officially notify the GFA.
If Kwarasey’s process goes through quickly he could be in line for a Ghana debut as early as September when the Black Stars play two games in Accra against Sudan and Utrecht against Japan.
