With the under- 20 Sports Championship underway in Accra and Kumasi, the Daily Graphic devotes its front-page to the tournament with headlines like “U-20 tourney enters day 4… Guinean’s fast after defeat”, “Today’s Group A duel against Angola…. its crucial, Satellites”, “We are not here for fun- Angola” and “Zambians happy with organisation” The lead story has it that the coach of the Black Satellites, Giuseppe Dossena has never been tired to drive home the point that he is more preoccupied with his team qualifying for the World Championship in Nigeria than winning the African Youth championship currently underway in Ghana. In as much as the Satellites winning of the African trophy will no doubt redound to the Italian coach’s credit, he personally sees it more as icing on the cake, the paper said. The paper says after undergoing a drilling in their opening match against bogey side Mali and surviving a scare last Sunday, courtesy of Abdul Issah Rahman’s 45th minute penalty, Dossena and his boys have now moved into the anchor leg on their way to fulfilling that dream. In a second story, the paper said core members of Guinea’s Under-20 team after losing to Nigeria refused to take dinner last Monday and swore to knockout any other team that stands in their way to the African Championship final match. Coach Ousmane Diop adds that the chief motivation for the accomplishment of what they have vowed to do is to seek vengeance against Nigeria who beat the Guineans 4-3 in a thriller of a match last Monday.
