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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Four months before competing at the World Cup, Ghana’s national team has added five new recruits who are now eligible to play in Qatar.<\/b><\/p>\n

Brighton defender Tariq Lamptey had played for England Under-21s, Hamburger SV pair Stephan Ambrosius and Ransford-Yeboah K\u00f6nigsd\u00f6rffer both represented Germany Under-21s and Athletic Bilbao forward I\u00f1aki Williams played one friendly for Spain, where he was born, and six years ago. Another Germany-based player, Patric Pfeiffer, is a forward at Darmstadt.<\/p>\n

The Ghana soccer federation said Wednesday all five have switched nationality to represent the African country.<\/p>\n

“This follows exhaustive engagements between the leadership of the (federation), the players and their parents in the last few months,” the Ghana soccer body said in a statement.<\/p>\n

FIFA eligibility rules let countries recruit players from their global diaspora in certain cases. Players are allowed to switch allegiance to a new national team if they never played a competitive game for the first country they were eligible to represent.<\/p>\n

Ghana qualified for its fourth World Cup, and first since 2014, by eliminating Nigeria in a two-leg playoff in March.<\/p>\n

Coach Otto Addo’s team was drawn into a World Cup group with Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay.<\/p>\n

The Uruguay game will be a rematch of their controversial 2010 World Cup quarterfinal in South Africa when Ghana was denied a late winning goal by Luis Su\u00e1rez’s handball save, missed the subsequent penalty, and then lost in the shootout.<\/p>\n

The World Cup starts in Qatar on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Eritrea<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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