Sports News of Saturday, 29 May 2010

Source: ghanafa.org

Stars leaving Paris for Dutch duel

Ghana's World Cup team will leave their training base in Paris Sunday morning for Rotterdam for an international friendly against the Dutch side.

Ahead of their departure tomorrow, the Black Stars after their last training session Michel Hidalgo stadium were hosted to a send-off dinner by a Ghanaian couple - Chief and the wife Nana Yaa Boakyewaa - at the Ghanaian owned Mama Africa restaurant in Paris.

Players were treated to local Ghanaian dishes with staff at the restaurant taking time to exchange pleasantries with the players, officials of the Ghana Football Association and Ghana High Commission.

The game against Holland in Rotterdam on June 1 is the first friendly fixture for the Black Stars who begun their training in France on Monday.

Ghana will wrap up their warm-up matches three days after the game against the Dutch with a final fixture against Latvia in London on June 5 after which the team will fly out to Pretoria the next day to settle at their South African World Cup training base.

The Black Stars are in group D alongside three-time champions Germany, Serbia and Australia.

Ghana's opening group D game is against Serbia on June 13.