{"id":1504,"date":"2026-07-27T07:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:49:55","slug":"kim-lars-bjorkegren-names-25-player-black-queens-squad-for-2026-wafcon-sahara-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren names 25-player Black Queens squad for 2026 WAFCON \u2022 Sahara Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Black-Queens-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren names 25-player Black Queens squad for 2026 WAFCON \u2022 Sahara Football\" title=\"Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren names 25-player Black Queens squad for 2026 WAFCON \u2022 Sahara Football\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Black Queens head coach Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren has named Ghana\u2019s 25-player squad for the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) tournament in Morocco.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish tactician named a core of the squad that finished third at the 2024 TotalEnergies Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>A squad laced with youth and experience will hope to draw inspiration from their upsurge of fine form in friendly games.<\/p>\n<p>The squad includes three goalkeepers: Afia Amenyeku of FK Apolonia, Cynthia Konlan Fiindib of Samatex Ladies and Osman Huzeimah of Jonina Ladies.<\/p>\n<p>In defence, Bj\u00f6rkegren has named Abena Anoma Opoku, Alex Tay, Anasteshia Achiaa, Benedicte Simon, Comfort Yeboah, Josephine Bonsu, captain Portia Boakye and Susan Amaduah.<\/p>\n<p>The midfield and attacking departments feature several familiar names within the Black Queens setup, including Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah, Evelyn Badu, Grace Asantewaa, Princella Adubea, Jennifer Cudjoe, Princess Marfo, Stella Nyamekye, Alice Kusi, Linda Owusuansah, Wasima Mohammed and Sharon Sampson.<\/p>\n<p>Doris Boaduwaa, Abi Kim and Ajegipina Zakaria will form the fulcrum in attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Queens have been drawn in Group D alongside Cameroon, Mali and Cape Verde, with the group stage scheduled to run from July 26 to August 6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Queens head coach Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren has named Ghana\u2019s 25-player squad for the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) tournament in Morocco. The Swedish tactician named a core of the squad that finished third at the 2024 TotalEnergies Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. A squad laced with youth and experience will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Black-Queens-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2937,1302,378,384,2935,2936,1303,1299,383,1306,1300],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-25player","tag-bjorkegren","tag-black","tag-football","tag-kim","tag-lars","tag-names","tag-queens","tag-sahara","tag-squad","tag-wafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}