Princesses will feel at home in Kumasi
WOMEN’S football lovers in the Ashanti Region have promised to make Ghana’s Under-20 female football team, the Black Princesses feel at home when they play Equatorial Guinea at the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday.
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The Princesses host the Equato Guineans in the second leg of their 2016 Women’s World Cup qualifier in Kumasi as their ‘usual’ home, the Accra Stadium has been temporarily closed for work to be undertaken on the pitch.
“For sometime now, fans in Accra and Tamale have enjoyed watching some of the matches of the Queens and Princesses, now we can also have the privilege of also hosting the national team too,” Madam Habiba Attah, the president of Fabulous Ladies, one of the top female football clubs in the country told the Graphic Sports.
According to her, women’s football lovers in Kumasi in particular were galvanising massive support for the Princesses to enable them win convincingly.
“We want the Princesses to feel at home when they play on Sunday. We are therefore organising so that fans will turn up in their numbers to support them. Equatorial Guinea are a good side and could be tough so we have to give them all the support they need to ensure that they win convincingly on Sunday and advance to the next stage.”
The Princesses go into the game with a 1-0 lead from the first leg played in Malabo two weeks ago and this will be the second successive time the two sides are meeting in the U-20 WWC qualifiers.
They clashed in the qualifiers for the 2014 WWC and the Princesses edged them to qualify for the tournament held in Canada.
The Princesses have meanwhile, arrived in Kumasi and will play a trial match against an Ashanti select side as they round up their preparation for Sunday’s game.
