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The Ghana FA has given various reason for its decision to suddenly pull out of the friendly against Kenya insisting they want to play the Harambee Stars in future. The Black Stars have told the decision by Sudan to bring forward their match against Ghana as well as the arrival of their players for the game in Nairobi on 1 June led to the decision to call off the game. The Kenya Football Federation (KFK) has revealed a letter written by Ghana Football Association (GFA) Protocol Officer Alex Asante on Tuesday informing them of the impossibility of honouring the friendly. The letter gave various reasons for the cancellation of the match, among them the inability to assemble their top stars on time and a change in the dates for their World Cup qualifier against Sudan, which forced them to change plans. �We regret to inform you that the Ghana Football Association cannot honour the match,� Asante wrote in the letter to the Kenya Football Federation. �The reasons for the cancellation are that the date for our qualifying match with Sudan has been shifted from the 9th to the 7th of June 2013 thereby forcing us to adopt new plans.� �Secondly, there have been several changes in the arrival dates of our players who are based in Europe. Most of them will be arriving in Accra between the 28th and the 30th of May thus making it impossible to gather them for the match. �The Ghana Football Association apologizes for this inconvenience and wishes that the match will be rescheduled for a future date,� said the letter from the Ghanaian association. Reacting to the cancellation, FKF Executive Committee member, Hussein Terry, said they have lined-up either Burundi or Rwanda to play Stars on June 1.