With Fifa scheduled to set a deadline in May for all 32 World Cup teams to present their squads for Brazil 2014, Kwesi Appiah has almost completed his squad list.
Indeed, the Ghana coach has 20 �automatic� players who will definitely be on the plane to South America.
Appiah, 53, has only recently returned from a trip to South Africa where he kept an eye on the Ghana side that placed second in the African Nations Championships - but he still is keeping his options open.
�I have said this from day one that it is only when you are clubless that you will miss my team because I cannot justify why I must call a player who is inactive at club level into my World Cup squad,� he told Asempa FM on Monday.
�As a coach there is no way you can say you don�t have a rough idea of the players you need at a tournament with just some few months to go. There are some players that I have reduced my scope and concentrating on them for the World Cup and the only thing I am praying against is injuries or something of that sort.
�Saying that I can confidently say I have 18-20 of the players who will automatically make my squad to Brazil barring any injury.�
It is expected that the coach will use Ghana's pre-tournament games with Costa Rica, Honduras, and Holland to tune up the side before facing Group G opponents USA, Germany and Portugal.
Source: citifmonline
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