Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo has directed the Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif to engage talks with Chelsea star Callum Hudson-Odoi on switching nationality to play for the Black Stars
The English-born player of Ghanaian descent paid a courtesy call on President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House on Monday.
The UEFA champions league winner with Chelsea presented an autograph jersey to the President.
In a post on the Facebook from the presidency on the visit by the Chelsea star read; : “Amongst others, I urged the Minister for Youth and Sports to explore the possibility of having Callum switch nationality, and play for the Black Stars.”
Hudson-Odoi, whose father is a former Ghana international and a Hearts of Oak star Bismark Odoi, can switch nationality to play for the Black Stars despite playing for the England national team in recent times.
FIFA rules state that Hudson-Odoi would be able to represent Ghana in the future, as he has not played more than three senior matches for England.
Those games all came before he turned 21 as is required, but he would need to wait to make an application until three years after his last appearance for England.
That came on November 17 in 2019, so theoretically Hudson-Odoi could make the application on the same date in 2022, which would be shortly before the World Cup got underway.
