Accra, Feb 27, GNA - Black Stars head coach, Claude Le Roy has selected 50 Premiership players as the nucleus of his local component of the team.

The coach announced in Accra on Tuesday at his novelty 91Meet the Press' event that the 50 layers will immediately plunge into intensive seven days camping next week to enable him have a closer look at them. Le Roy's emphasis at the camping billed for the Prampram Centre of Excellence is on tactical, technical and physical strength of the players.

He said he reckons that most of the selected players are skilful but said his aim is to select a squad whose level can match any world class team.

The French coach said he will similarly be watching out for disciplined and players with speed reaction talents during the camping. The trainer is expected to sieve the best materials out of the lot and will open the doors to others currently outside the group but who prove worthy of invitation.

"The door is 100 percent open to both sides 96 in and out respectively".

Coach Le Roy described a chunk of the invited players as young with a few experienced ones.

The capabilities of the players will determine when they will break into the current Stars squad.

The coach said his desire is to build a solid local team capable of blending well with some of their counterparts outside the country to enable them win matches after matches.

The team will occasionally camp in search of cohesion with measures aimed at getting all the ingredients that make good team's tick. Coach Le Roy said the players would occasionally engage some teams from neighbouring countries as Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire and others on the continent for the required exposure.

The 50 invited players are made up of

Goalkeepers:

George Owu (AshantiGold) Sulemanu Abubakar (Hearts of Oak) Isaac Ankrong (All Blacks) and Antwi Patrick (Liberty Professionals)

Defenders:

Fatau Dauda (AshantiGold) Louis Quainoo (Tema Youth) Eric Agyeman (King Faisal) Isaac Vorsah (Asante Kotoko) Daniel Addo (Power F.C) Appiah Ofosu (Heart of Lions) Paul Aidoo (Sekondi Hassacas) Daniel Ocran (Sekondi Hassacas) Samuel Inkoom (Sekondi Hassacas) Kojo Asamoah (Liberty Professionals) Anthony Baffoe (AshantiGold) Delilu Abdulai (Sekondi Hassacas) Habib Mohammed, Yaya Mohammed (Tema Youth) Bawa Mumuni (Liberty Professionals) Yaw Frimpong (Feyenoord) Daniel Coleman (Hearts of Oak) Alex Djanie (Power F.C)

Midfielders:

Abraham Annan (Heart of Lions) Ekow Benson (Tema Youth) Kwaku Essien (King Faisal) Edmund Owusu-Ansah (Asante Kotoko) Wakaso Bukari (AshantiGold) Hamza Abdulai (Real Sportive) Osei Kwame (Asante Kotoko) Bossman Francis (Hearts of Oak) Akesi Soale (RTU) Edward Afum (Tema Youth)

Attackers:

Emmanuel Clottey (Great Olympics) Kwabena Yaro (Power F.C) Kwame Darko Obeng (Asante Kotoko) Eric Bekoe (Heart of Loins) Rabiu Mohammed (Liberty Professionals) Osei Banahene (Heart of Lions) Quayeson Fredrick (Sekondi Hassacas) Moses Andoh (Heart of Oak) Aggrey Francis (Berekum Arsenals) Ellis Samuel (Sekondi Hassacas) Darko Francis (Bofoakwa Tano) David Telfer (AshantiGold) Jonathan Quartey (AshantiGold) Emmanuel Ansong (Great Olympics) Owusu Addai (Liberty Professionals) Tagoe James (AshantiGold) Alfred Arthur (AshantiGold) Sadat Bakari (Hearts of Lions) .