Black Stars head coach Burkhard Ziese is finding it just too difficult to come to terms with what he believes is a total lack of national feel by some of the players of the senior national team, the Black Stars.

With the date for the Stars 'crucial qualifying game in the Rwandan capital Kigali drawing too close with each passing day, Burkhard is far from ready to tackle his game. He cannot even raise a team and he cannot answer why.

'You have to ask the players why they are not responding to the national call. I do not know why,' was his terse response when he led the national Under-23 team to pip Liberia by a lone goal at the Accra stadium.

'Just look at what happened today; when they play for their clubs they play totally different and when they play for the national team, they don't give anything,' referring to a wasteful output by the Meteors in their game against the hapless Liberian side.

Asked what he thinks accounts for the lackadaisical attitude of the boys to national assignments, Burkhard retorted that the question would better be thrown at the players.

The German coach said he is convinced that the team was over a hundred percent prepared by way of training and other areas but the players' output was not encouraging, arguing that the boys had about four open chances in the first 11 minutes of the game but from those not even a single shot was attempted.

"This is not a team. I said to my boys, 'look, today you can write history.' Why? I said today you can give them 12, 15 or anything you want and then look at even the goal we scored. And they are also playing for lots of money, which the people and government are giving to them. I can't understand or explain, I can't.'

Burkhard said from the way things stood as at Sunday, he was going to have to keep some of the players from the Meteors since he was not sure when those invited to the Black Stars were going to show up. 'I am the wrong person to answer why they are not coming. They have been invited and the newspapers have published the list even on Thursday.'

Asked what he intended doing if the players continued to stay away from the match, Burkhard shot back that he does not know since he has not invited the players and it was not expected of him to follow the players to their homes to call them.

But in spite of the team's predicament and the enormity of the Kigali task, Burkhard said if he had the full compliment of the team, the chances are still open.

As we went to press news filtering in indicated that Asante Kotoko's lethal striker, Isaac Boakye as well as Bayern Munich's Samuel Osei Kuffour had joined the likes of Stephen Appiah and Abukari Kankani in camp.