Thursday, June 18, 2026

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Ghana:  Lamptey ,Williams declare for Black Stars

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Brighton defender Tariq Lamptey and Athletic Bilbao forward Inaki Williams are among five players who have switched their international allegiance to Ghana.

London-born Lamptey, 21, represented England at youth levels while Williams, who was born in Bilbao to Ghanaian parents, was capped once by Spain.

Wing-back Lamptey had looked set to switch to the West African nation after asking to be left out of the England Under-21 squad for the European U21 Championship qualifiers last month.

The pair join three players based in Germany – Stephen Ambrosius, Ransford-Yeboah Konigsdorffer and Patric Pfeiffer – in committing to the Black Stars ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Uncapped German-born defender Pfeiffer, 22, plays for Darmstadt 98, but Hamburg’s duo of Ambrosius, 23, and forward Konigsdorffer, 21, have both represented Germany at under-21 level.

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) expects their availability will help take the West Africans to the next level.