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Soccer News of Friday, 9 August 2002

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Stars Break Up Camp

The senior national team, Black Stars made up of local players who started camping on last Monday broke camp yesterday morning to enable the players to travel back to their clubs to prepare for Sunday's Premier League matches.

Coach Isaac Paha said the team would reassemble next Monday to start the second week of camping.

The assistant coach said all the players in camp responded well to training judging from the short time that they have been together as a team.

He said they had almost all the players invited in camp with the

exception of Liberty's Daniel Yeboah and Kotoko's Nana Arhin Duah bringing the number of players to 25.

The players on Wednesday morning went through some drills and shooting practice while goalkeepers coach Malik Jabir worked on the four goalkeepers in camp.

Milan Zivadinovic, coach of the team who just returned from a tour of some European countries to arrange training matches for the team said he is happy with his new place of abode at the Adwoa Wangara hotel describing the place as fantastic.

He said during his tour he struck deals that would enable the Black Stars play against quality sides at least once a month starting from December to test their skills against quality opposition to toughen them.

The coach mentioned some of the targeted countries as Greece, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and his home country Yugoslavia.

Some notable players in camp were Sammy Adjei, Edmund Copson from Hearts, Hamza Mohammed and Joe Hendricks from Kotoko and Prinston Owusu-Ansah from Goldfields.