The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is trying to confirm some further World Cup warm-up matches for the Ghana Black Stars national team as they gear up for their first ever World Cup Finals in Germany.

The GFA has now confirmed matches against Turkey and Jamaica in late May, but have had to make a few adjustments to its original preparatory schedule for the national team following FIFA’s refusal to extend the time for the submission of final squad lists for the World Cup Finals.

Randy Abbey, spokesman for the federation, told Ghanaian media that the Black Stars would have to rely on some warm-up matches with some international club sides before submitting their final squad on May 15, due to the impossibility of securing a date with any national team before the FIFA deadline.

“We have confirmed two games in May. The 26th of May, a game against Turkey in Germany and then the 29th of May, a game against the Reggae Boyz of Jamaica in London and then, of course, the 4th June game against South Korea in Glasgow, Scotland.

“What we are trying to do now in view of the FIFA directive is to get a couple of Bundesliga sides to give us two matches in the first and fourth week of April so that we can continue with our observation and monitoring of our players in real match situation before we submit our final list on the 15th May.

“It would be difficult to get national teams to play in April, so we are still trying to arrange so that we can get some Bundesliga sides to give us two matches.”

Ghana have been drawn in Group E in the World Cup Finals, alongside Italy, the USA and the Czech Republic.

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