Black Stars head coach, Otto Addo has opened up on his decision not to hand an invitation to RC Lens midfielder Abdul Samed Salis for Ghana's Pre-World Cup friendlies this month.
Samed Salis, who has had an amazing season in the French Ligue 1 with RC Lens, was surprisingly left out of Ghana's squad list for a double-header friendly against Brazil and Nicaragua.
However, Otto Addo has revealed that he and his technical team opted not to hand a call-up to the 22-year-old defensive midfielder after turning down an earlier standby invitation months ago.
“Salis Abdul Samed, he played at Clermont Foot with Alidu Seidu, I called the two in May, and we still have a list with players on stand-by to be prepared in the event that players are injured,” Addo said as reported by Africa Football News.
“Alidu Seidu told me that there was no problem with him not being on the reserve list and being ready just in case. But Salis Abdul Samed told me he didn’t want to be on the reserve list.
“Then we had a lot of injuries in June, so I invited Alidu Seidu but Abdul Samed didn’t want to be a reservist so he wasn’t on the list, I couldn’t invite him.“So he is the one who excludes himself from the list? ” Yes, that’s it.”
Ghana suffered a 3-0 defeat to five-time World Cup winners Brazil in an international friendly at Stade Oceane in Le Harve on Friday.
Meanwhile, Coach Otto will now work with 27 players for the match against Nicaragua on Tuesday at Estadio Francisco Artés Carrasco based in Lorca after Thomas Partey was excused to fly to Londo to assess the extent of his injury suffered ahead of the Brazil game.
The team will be hoping to rewrite the script after the Brazil humiliation at Stade Oceane in Le Harve on Friday, September 23, 2022.
The match is scheduled for 18:00GMT on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
