Ghana Black Stars to play friendly with USA in October

The Black Stars of Ghana will play an International friendly game against the U.S. Men’s National Team in October, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced.

It is one of two friendly matches to be played by The Yanks during the international break.

The U.S. will first host four-time World champions Germany before playing Ghana in preparation for their Quarter-Final match in the Concacaf Nations League the following month.

The U.S.A first face Germany on Saturday, October 14, in Hartford, Conn. Kickoff from Rentschler Field at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at 3 p.m. ET

The match will be broadcast live on TNT and Telemundo and streamed on Max and Peacock. The Yanks will later play the Black Stars of Ghana three days later, in its first visit to GEODIS Park in Nashville, Tenn.

TNT and Universo will televise the match with Max and Peacock streaming at 8 p.m. ET, followed by kickoff at 8:30 p.m. ET.

Germany boasts of talent from some of the top clubs in Europe and are preparing to host the 2024 UEFA Championship. Ghana has twice knocked the United States out of World Cups (2006, 2010) and will be seeking their first win on U.S. soil in the all-time series.

“We have always been looking for these kinds of opportunities to continue our team building exercise so playing against the United States of America has come in handy” President Simeon-Okraku told ghanafa.

‘’We have two more matches to end the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers and would need matches of this nature to prepare for future assignments i.e. the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast’’

‘The game presents to us a very good platform to test our strength against one of the best teams in the World’’ President Simeon-Okraku added

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ALL EVEN AGAINST THE BLACK STARS

Having met four times in their history, the series is perfectly split with each side collecting two wins with matching 2-1 score lines. Remarkably, three of the four meetings have taken place in World Cups, with Ghana getting the edge in the 2006 and 2010 while the USA snatched the opening group game in 2014 in Brazil. Most recently, first-time goal scorers Kellyn Acosta and Dom Dwyer along with a penalty save by goalkeeper Brad Guzan lifted the USA to a 2-1 win on July 1, 2017, in Hartford – the same venue of the upcoming Germany game. Always one of the top contenders in African football, Ghana has qualified for four of the past five World Cups.