No first-choice goalkeeper for Ghana’s 2014 World Cup yet – Nasamu

By Stephen Amos - Tweet me @StefenAmos

With four months left to the start of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Nasamu Yakubu the goalkeepers’ coach of the senior national team, the Black Stars has categorically stated that he does not have a ‘permanent number one’ yet.

Nasamu Yakubu who was explaining the decision to rest recent number one Fatau Dauda from the international friendly against Montenegro on March 5 says he can only stick his neck out on who will be Ghana’s first choice after the Black Stars complete their preparations for the mundial at their Los Angeles camp base later in June.

“I will use the scenario; supposing they all [called keepers] were number one choices from their clubs, do you say this one is the number one or the other based on the clubs they are coming from or you will choose the person who performs better when they are together?

Unless we come together [at training]; we all work then compare who is playing well at that moment and that person becomes the number one at that time. For now, they are all number one. A lot of things come into place before one becomes a number one. Until we finish our preparations, I will not stick my neck out to say that we have a number one for the Black Stars at this time,” Yakubu told Accra-based Power FM.

The Black Stars goalkeepers’ trainer says the technical team was satisfied with Fatau’s performance in the qualifiers and so informed him of they wanted him to rest from the Montenegro game in order to try out other options.

“Fatau has been fantastic for the team throughout the qualifiers and we want to give others the opportunity to see what they can do. He knows why he has been left out.

“For a very longtime Kwarasey has been on the bench. The last time he played was when we played against Turkey and in that game we gave him one half and Razakk Braimah the other half. So this time around, we will give him the entire opportunity to see what he can do and if we want to see if Adams can also perform at that level, we will do that,” he explained.