Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac to name provisional AFCON squad on Tuesday

• Head coach of the Black Stars Milovan Rajevac will be announcing his provisional squad for next year's AFCON on Tuesday in Accra
• The Serbian trainer will meet the press at the Ghana Football Association secretariat where he will answer questions about his team
• The Black Stars will start preparations for next year's Africa Cup of Nations in Qatar on Wednesday December 22, 2021

Black Stars coach, Milovan Rajevac will name his provisional squad for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 in Accra.

The Serbian trainer is expected to name a larger squad before it is pruned to a 28-man team for the Nations Cup in Cameroon.

The Ghana Football Association confirmed the coach will be meeting the press on Tuesday at their secretariat, where an announcement will be made as to which players will represent the country at AFCON 2021.

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Milovan Rajevac is expected to leave Ghana for Qatar immediately after naming his team, where a pre-AFCON camping starts this week.

The Black Stars will spend three weeks in Qatar, and they will be engaged in three international friendlies before leaving for Cameroon on January 7, 2022.

Ghana have been drawn in Group C of the Africa Cup of Nations, alongside Morocco, Gabon and the Comoros Island.

The Black Stars open their campaign on January 10, 2022 against North Africans Morocco, before facing Gabon and Comoros Island in subsequent games.

The West African powerhouse are chasing a fifth elusive AFCON trophy, having last won the tournament in 1982. Ghana has come close three times since, losing the 1992, 2010 and 2015 finals.

Ghana to play Algeria in pre-AFCON friendly

The Black Stars of Ghana will play African champions Algeria in a pre-AFCON friendly in Qatar next month before the tournament in Cameroon.

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Algeria and Ghana are preparing for Africa's elite competition, which begins on January 9, 2021 and ends on February 6, 2022.

In a post on Twitter by Algeria's sports portal DZ Foot, the Algerian Football Federation confirmed the encounter with the Black Stars.