AFCON 2025Q: Joseph Paintsil out of Black Stars game against Niger



The Black Stars shall be with out Joseph Paintsil for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier towards Niger on Monday.

In keeping with head coach Otto Addo, Painstil faces points together with his US work allow and has been given the go-ahead to go to the embassy to resolve the problems.

Painstil got here off the bench throughout Ghana’s opening sport of the qualifiers towards Angola final weekend and was anticipated to be concerned within the conflict with Niger.

Nevertheless, the LA Galaxy ahead was not a part of the workforce that travelled to Morocco for the second group sport, becoming a member of Jerome Opoku has additionally been dominated out.

“He [Jerome Opoku] shall be out for this sport. Additionally, Joseph Painstil, there’s some difficulty together with his work allow for the US,” mentioned Addo.

“For that, he has to go to the US Embassy. The process takes some days. We wanted his passport when he needed to come back to Morocco. We couldn’t take him there. We had been hoping he would end every part quick on the US Embassy. However, like I mentioned, I believe it takes greater than three, 4, 5 days. He needed to do it as a result of in any other case, he couldn’t return to his membership within the US. So, each of them won’t be out there.”

The Black Stars are hoping to bounce again to successful methods towards Niger with kickoff in Berkane set for 15:00 GMT.


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