Black Satellites head coach Sellas Tetteh has named 12 foreign-based players in his 24-man squad for next month's Fifa Under-20 World Cup.

Quartet Daniel Opare, Rabiu Mohammed, Ishmael Yartey and Sadick Adams who missed the African Youth Championship early this year have been recalled.

Also invited is Opoku Agyemang who impressed with the Black Stars and John Benson of Aspire Academy have been handed debut calls.

Hearts of Oak youngster Tawrick Jibril has been left out of the squad after being named in local band of players.

The squad will be pruned to 21 before the tournament kick-starts on 24 September.

Goalkeepers:Joseph Addo (Heart of Lions), Daniel Adjei (Liberty Professionals) and Robert Dabuo (Wa All Stars).

Defenders:Samuel Inkoom (Basel, Switzerland), Daniel Opare (Real Madrid, Spain), David Addy (Randers, Denmark), Philip Boampong (Berekum Arsenals), Daniel Addo (King Faisal), Bright Addai (Wa All Stars) and Jonathan Mensah (Free State Stars, South Africa)

Midfielders:Gladson Awako (Heart of Lions), Kassinu Ghandi (Liberty Professionals), Emmanuel Agyeman-Badu (Asante Kotoko) James Bissue (Eleven Wise), Rabiu Mohammed (Sampdoria, Italy), Abeiku Quansah (Nice, France), Andre Ayew (Marseille, France) Ishmael Yartey (SC Beira-Mar, Portugal)

Attackers:John Benson (Aspire Academy, Qatar) Opoku Agyemang (Al Sadd, Qatar) Ransford Osei (Meccabi Haifa, Israel), Latif Salifu (Liberty Professionals), Dominic Adiyiah (Fredrikstad, Norway) and Sadick Adams (Atletico Madrid, Spain)