Ghana’s U-20 coach Sillas Tetteh has told Mylik sports.com that the experience gained with the Black Stars guided him to rock the boat of the Black Satellites.

Sillas Tetteh’s Black Satellites job started on a good note when they spanked Angola by 5-1 at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium to begin their African Youth Championship in Rwanda on a smiling fashion.

According to Sillas Tetteh his utmost prayer is to scale past the first schedule against the Angolans and qualify into the group stages of the competition after his adventure with the Black Stars, which saw him, record impressive victories against Gabon, Lesotho and Libya in the joint 2010 nations and world cup qualifiers on temporary bases as the head coach.

“I think my experience with the national team has taught me a lot and won’t be under any pressure handling this Black Satellites team. I worked with majority of the boys from the U-17 level and that is why we won today”.

“We need to be focus to break the long silence of not playing at the world level and I believe the current team will turn things around this time around”.
“The journey has already begun and hope things remain the same way as it is today and with support of the country we achieve the dream,” he added.

It will be recalled that Sillas Tetteh worked under Ratomir Dujkovic and Claude Leroy as their assistant during their rein as the Black Stars coach and is the first Ghanaian to coach at the FIFA world cup during the 2006 finals in Germany against Brazil when he took the coaching job after Ratomir Dujkovic was red carded.

Ghana have failed to qualify for both the Africa and the in 2001 World Youth tournament in the last three editions and last played in Argentina were they lost the final to host Argentina in 2001 under coach Kwesi Afraine.

Ghanaian and International wonder kid Mario Bawuah Balotelli is looking increasingly likely to leave Inter Milan after a sensational statement in which he declared that he feels nothing for the Serie A Champions.

The striker who on several attempts by the Ghana Football Association to play for the country of his parents has failed will next month be given his Italian passport and has being promised to be drafted into the Italian U-21 set in the future and has already voice his desire to play for the Azzurris.

The 17-year-old Balotelli is widely seen as one the most best young talents in world football, and he has burst onto the Serie A scene this season, making 11 appearances and scoring three goals

Balotelli’s current deal at San Siro runs out in 2010 and he earns just €60,000 a season. The forward has been in talks over a new and improved deal, but negotiations have not gone well at all, with the youngster said to be unhappy with the financial terms he has been offered.

Mario Bawuah Balotelli has already come out in the press threatening to quit the club, not only if his contract is not improved, but if he is not given a first team place next season. However in a shocking declaration, Balotelli may have just signed his own exit papers out of the club after admitting that he feels nothing for Inter.

“I do not feel for Inter inside,” the Gazzetta dello Sport has reported Balotelli as saying.

It is speculated that this statement may be a ploy to try and get Inter to equal the wages that Alexandre Pato earns at Milan, which is €1.2m a year. However whether the Nerazzurri will be willing to keep him following these damning statements remains to be seen. Already Premiership Clubs Chelsea and Manchester United are both ready to pounce on the player should the latter be ready to cash in on the prodigy.

The Head coach of national U-17 side Emmanuel Kwesi Afraine has explained his decision of calling fifty-five (55) players to the camp of the Black Starlets ahead of the African qualifiers, which begins in July.

The Black Starlets technical and management team on Monday released the list of players who made the grade during their tour of the country to scout for talents for the team. Ghana and Nigeria are the only countries in Africa to have won the converted trophy more than any other country with Nigeria winning three times and Ghana winning twice.

According to Coach Afraine it offers him the opportunity to select the best from the magnitude of players at his disposal since there will be keen competition for positions coupled with discipline and dedication from the players.

“The size is not a problem but what comes out of the lot is what is important”
“The players in camp now are all good materials and we need time to study them so that the outstanding ones are selected at the end of the campaign to keep the standard set up by previous starlets team at both the CAF qualifiers and at the FIFA world cup” he added.

Ghana’s plan of swooping Inter Milan striker Mario Bawuah Balotelli to the fold of the Black Stars is in tatters. The youngster whose parents are both Ghanaians from the Ashanti Region have turned down series of invitations from the GFA to play for the country of his birth.

Myliksports.com can confirm on authority that Mario Bawuah Balotelli would be given his Italian (passport) citizenship in August concretizing his wish of playing for Italy rather than Ghana and has already being put on alert of been drafted into the Italian U-21 side in the future.

The 17 year-old in an interview declared: “After the Scudetto, now I want to win the Coppa Italia and Primavera. My future plans do include the Azzurri jersey, I thank (Italy U21) coach Pierluigi Casiraghi for his compliments.
“I enjoy working at Inter with Sinisa Mihajlovic, whose lessons are really valuable. To not react to provocation on the field is always difficult, but I am trying to control my temper better.”
Mario Bawuah Balotelli broke into the Inter Milan first team at the latter part of the season and has since being a phenomenal character with the Italian champions although he came into prominence during the pre-season training ahead of the 2007/2008 season. Connoisseurs have touted the pacy striker as a future asset to the capital club.

English Premiership trio- Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers and Middlesbrough are chasing Ghana international Anthony Annan.
The Ghanaian midfielder, poised to leave Norwegians Stabaek, was a £3million target for Chelsea before Avram Grant was axed.
Annan said: “My agent is working hard for me and he says a lot about me moving to the Premiership in summer, so I’m looking forward to playing there.
“He told me Blackburn, Bolton and Middlesbrough are all interested.
“My first choice is for a move to England but I would otherwise think about France or Spain.”

Continents top footballers will this weekend swing into action with their various countries as the joint world and nations cup qualifiers kick off this weekend.

Players like Michael Essien, Samuel Eto’o, Frederic Kanoute, Nwankwo Kanu and Emmanuel Adebayor go from the cauldron of top club competition into an equally demanding round of qualifiers on the next four weekends at the start of the group phase of the African preliminaries for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ finals in South Africa.

The season in Europe has taken a toll already with the likes of Didier Drogba, Gneri Yaya Toure, Benni McCarthy, Obafemi Martins missing out in the first group games.

Drogba is injured, and Toure is out after a back operation for, Cote d’Ivoire’s opening game against Mozambique in Abidjan on Sunday.

Blackburn Rovers’ McCarthy has withdrawn from South African team for unexplained personal reasons ahead of their match against Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday.

The home side are without injured Martins upfront giving an opportunity to the 20-year-old Everton striker Victor Anichebe for a competitive debut in the senior side.

A total of 44 teams begin the chase for five World Cup places this weekend.

Hosts South Africa have already qualified but are participating in the preliminaries which are also being used to determine the 16 finalists for the 2010 MTN Africa Cup of Nations Cup tournament in Angola.

The match between Sudan and Chad has been postponed because of political tension between the two neighbours while Swaziland get a bye this weekend after the withdrawal of Eritrea.

The Ivorians are among the five African finalists from the last World Cup finals in Germany, who start with a home tie in their respective groups.

Ghana takes on Libya in Kumasi on Sunday, while Angola have a home tie against Benin in Luanda the same day. Tunisia host Burkina Faso at Rades on Sunday while Togo are forced to play in neutral Ghana after a ban on their next four home matches following crowd violence last year.

They will meet Zambia in Accra on Saturday.

The first group phase of the Africa qualifiers will conclude in October after which the winners of the 12 groups advance to the next stage along with the eight best second place finishers.  The second phase starts in November with the 20 remaining sides divided onto five groups of four.  The group winners will qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa