Meet the four police officers in the Black Queens squad

Fresh disconnected helping Police Ladies triumph the Southern Zone rubric successful the 2024–25 Malta Guinness Women’s Premier League, 4 players from the nine person been rewarded with nationalist squad call-ups, and they each service successful the Ghana Police Service.

Lance Corporal Deborah Afriyie, Constable Philicity Asuako, Lance Corporal Grace Animah, and Sergeant Mary Berko person each been named successful the Black Queens squad presently camping astatine the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence successful Prampram.

Their inclusion highlights some their club’s outstanding home signifier and the power of work teams successful Ghana’s women’s football.

The quartet played a cardinal relation successful Police Ladies’ melodramatic final-day triumph connected April 12. With Hasaacas Ladies held to a 1–1 gully successful Sekondi, Police Ladies seized their accidental successful East Legon.

Goals from Victoria Teye Williams and nationalist squad call-up Deborah Afriyie saw them borderline FC Epiphany and clinch the Southern Zone championship.

Constable Philicity Asuako is expected to beryllium portion of the team’s antiaircraft setup, portion Afriyie, Animah, and Berko are apt to run successful midfield oregon attacking roles.

Their call-ups, however, travel with a twist. Police Ladies are acceptable to look Ampem Darkoa Ladies, Northern Zone champions, successful the play finale astatine the University of Ghana Stadium connected Saturday, May 10, 2025.

With the Black Queens campy inactive ongoing, there’s a anticipation the 4 officers whitethorn miss retired connected what would person been the biggest crippled of their home season.

Even so, their beingness successful the nationalist squad underscores their consistency and importance, not conscionable to their nine but to the aboriginal of Ghana’s women's football.

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