Liberia are intensifying their preparations for the first qualifying round to the 2015 Caf U-23 Championship against Ghana.
 
Head coach of Liberia’s U-23 team, Thomas Kojo, has handed invitations to three foreign-based players for the first leg tie confirmed for the Tamale Stadium on April 26.
 
Liberia’s Olympic team, the Satellites, have been training at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia and expect to be boosted by the arrival of attacking trio, Herron Scarla Berrian from Greek side Platanias Chania, Sporo Somah of Ivorian Coast’s Sewe Sport and U.S-based University of Mt. Olive’s Cooper Gaypia.
 
Somah, who now plays in Ivory Coast is not new to Ghana as he was an influential member of the Barrack Young Controllers (BYC) side who famously kicked Asante Kotoko out of the 2014 Caf Champions League.
 
The Satellites plan to play a final test game against local side LPRC Oilers on Tuesday morning before flying out to Ghana the following day.
 
Meanwhile, their opponents, the Black Meteors, after securing an All-Africa Games have resumed camping in Tamale ahead of the April 26 clash.
 
There is no official communication on Liberia’s request to have the second leg game hosted in Ghana yet – an encounter scheduled for the weekend of May 8-10, 2015.

The winner of the two-legged tie advances to face Congo then Nigeria in the second and third qualifying rounds respectively, after which the successful side gets to play in the eight-team Caf U-23 Championship in Senegal later in December.

The top three teams from the competition will take up the African slots for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be staged in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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