Black Queens: Mercy Tagoe drops captain Elizabeth Addo; names 23-player squad for Aisha Buhari Cup. Click to check the squad [Happy FM]

Ghana head coach Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo has axed skipper Elizabeth Addo from her Black Queens final 23-player squad for the 2021 Aisha Buhari Cup, according to a report filed by Accra-based Happy FM.

Addo, 28, was named in the provisional 30-player squad published on the website of the Ghana Football Association a week ago.

But, per current reports by Happy FM the Sweden-based midfield maestro has been excluded from the final squad for the tournament in Nigeria with reasons not given by the Asylum Down-based media outlet.

Below are the players who have made the grades for the tournament.

Goalkeepers: Fafali Dumehasi (Police Ladies); Victoria Agyei (Kumasi Sports Academy); Mary Neequaye (Immigration Ladies)

Defenders: Gladys Amfobea (Ladystrikers); Nina Norshie (Berry Ladies); Ellen Coleman (Ladystrikers); Janet Egyir (Hasaacas Ladies); Philicity Asuako (Police Ladies); Naomi Anima (Kumasi Sports Academy); Justice Tweneboaa (Ampem Dakoa Ladies)

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Midfielders: Priscilla Okyere (Hapoel Be’er Sheva, Israel); Grace Acheampong (Ashtown Ladies); Rashida Ibrahim (Berry Ladies); Henrietta Annie (Police Ladies); Monica Addai (Berry Ladies); Grace Asantewaa (Real Betis, Spain); Grace Adams (Berry Ladies)

Forwards: Vivian Konadu Adjei (Thunder Queens); Elizabeth Owusuaa (Sea Lions); Sophaiah Agyaakwa (Soccer Intellectuals); Princella Adubea (Racing Feminino, Spain); Sonia Opoku (Ampem Dakoa Ladies); Portia Boakye (Djurgardens IF, Sweden).

The Black Queens have been drawn in Group B alongside the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon and South Africa’s Banyana Banyana.

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