Benjamin Asare

"I am happy with the confidence in me and the support. I am glad I lived up to expectation," he told."

"Sometimes people think once you are a local player, the national team will be difficult, but we are very determined. I think if a local player is good, he deserves a platform."

"The work I didn't do it alone, they helped me to get that achievement and also my determination is that when I am in the goalpost, it will not be easy to concede."

"If you are a goalkeeper and you keep a clean sheet and don't concede goals, people will see it. So far, I will say my hard work helped me to get this call-up."

"The changes it has brought to my career are that club football is different from national team football. I have the confidence that if I travel abroad to play, I will be able to fit in because I have seen the difference. You need to fit into wherever you are taken."

"What I will tell my colleagues is that we should attach seriousness to training and league games because the national team is not child's play and the home-based players are not different from the foreign-based."

"The key thing I learnt is that punctuality and self-discipline are very important."