Scouts flood Ghana's camp

From Veronica Commey, GNA correspondent in Egypt, courtesy Ministry of Youth and Sports

Ismailia, Oct. 6, GNA - Soccer scouts had flooded the camp of Ghana's Black Satellites in search of players for European teams as the team made waves at the ongoing FIFA-U20 World Cup underway in Egypt. The scouts representing had lodged at Mercure Hotel in the heart of Ismailia, accommodating the Satellites players, and kept an eagle's eye on the players off the field as the scouts tried to undo each other in the search of players.

The GNA Sports confirmed that scouts represented teams from Spain, Italy, France, Holland and Zamalek that had tried endlessly to contact the players.

Most of the scouts had already spoken to some of the players with midfielders leading the packing order and though 80 per cent of them played outside Ghana, the scouts communicated their desire to the players for a possible switch.

Big European clubs like Monaco, Saviella, Valencia and Sampdoria had already made mouth watering offers to some of the players with others already inviting managers of some of players to commence negotiations.

Though it was the dream of players to be linked with clubs outside Africa, some might consider joining Zamalek, an Egyptian culub, because of the attractive offers being made by the former African Champions. On the field, the scouts' attention had been on performance and their focus was on personality as they went the length to engage players on daily basis.

Obviously, Ghanaian players would be expected to be at the thick of movement regardless whether they would travel further than the quarter-final stage of the competition that had brought together the world's best 24 youth teams. 06 Oct. 09