"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."

"It's a huge honour to have extended my contract with the club and to be continuing this great adventure. I'm delighted. I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me feel good at Rennes, the staff, the directors and my team-mates. I'd also like to thank the fans, who are always there."

"I was doing really well at the start of the season. This injury stopped me in my tracks and it's up to me to be strong mentally to overcome it. I'm at the top of my game mentally, I'm well supported and I'm still smiling. I've started racing again and that's a joy, but you have to accept that you have to go step by step and listen to the Doc'."

"Extremely appreciative of getting the opportunity to wear the national team jersey for the first time. A proud moment I will never forget. Also want to say a massive thank you to Ghanaians for their support."

"We’ll have a nice Christmas with our families."

"When you are the first-choice goalkeeper, it’s very different from being a back-up. It’s much more difficult being a back-up and waiting for your opportunity when the first choice is not around."

"It’s all about hard work."

"Everyone’s buzzing in the changing room. It’s the perfect way to head into a Christmas break and we’re excited for what the rest of the season has in store for us."

"We’re going to get ourselves ready and just treat it as another game, and hopefully keep the unbeaten run going."

"I was very happy because it’s my job to help the team out, and in a penalty shootout it was just my time to shine, and I think I did that."

"It’s all about heart."

"We know that football is about fighting, and that the team that fights the best will get the win."

"I made some saves and saved a penalty, but I was just doing my job."

"Being here was a big thing as it’s so different to back home. My family were in the middle but that’s because they moved abroad and were able to send money back home."

"We both know how things are back home and if you are not humble, you must be crazy."

"That’s the thing about the boys – it’s always in our mind to only ever give one hundred per cent. I think everyone did that last time – and will do again on Friday."

"The first one, two or three times is to get a feel and see how it goes after."

"It’s actually a different group of players. Here, there are totally different players from different clubs so it’s not really the same compared to my club. But seeing the quality of players we have here, I think we going to a have a great game and a great time here."

"I didn’t go into it thinking I might get a chance. But I’m ready if the chance comes."

"I had to find my own way, and it wasn’t easy. What Right to Dream is doing is a gift to the youth and future of Ghana, especially because academic education is such a big part of the program alongside the football"

"When I have the ball, she knows what I'll do next."

"When I started schooling, my parents didn't want me to play football because I was always coming home dirty."

"As footballers, you want to play against the big boys, so if that happens then we’re ready to go."

"You know when you go there it’s going to be a massive challenge, so we just need to make sure that we are ready and then see what happens."

"We have come close many times so there we are not far off at all."

"Naturally, we want to win the tournament because it would feel very good [to do do] at home, but we can only focus on it one game at a time."

"It’s sometimes sad and disheartening how the people of Ghana especially the media have just neglected us and say nothing about our teams."

"Why can't female players and coaches be celebrated as well?"

"We are all serving the same Ghana as the male players and coaches."

"I work with the young people and players coming through the academy on and off the pitch every day. It gives me great joy to help them develop further and assist them in reaching the next steps of their future with endless potential"

"The new academy plans and investment in Ghana is a massive statement and will improve Right to Dream’s Ghanaian program even further in the years to come,"

"So my mum didn't want me to continue playing.She encouraged me to study, so I wanted to become a doctor. I made my mind up but things changed and here I am today playing football professionally."

"It’s a great opportunity for me. I just have to stay focussed and work hard and hopefully everything is going to be fine and we see the way forward."

"It’s an important game for us and we have to focus on this game, take everything serious, stay together and we will have a great game."

"The coaches focus more on players playing in big leagues or against decent opponents."

"I visit Ghana every time, and I am ever ready to honour any call-up from the Black Stars. I know the right time will come, and I believe in the technical team. They are doing a fantastic job."

"It is normal back home that it is difficult, and people move abroad to get a better life."

"I was a defender as a boy, but I was terrible and wasn’t fit enough!"

"Being dropped wasn’t a good thing and it was very hard mentally, but I took it as a big motivation and didn’t let it get me down. I just kept going."

"It gives me more motivation, 100 per cent, because we have had similar journeys and come from similar backgrounds as well."

"In this game, you’ve got to believe. If you don’t belief in yourselves, there’s no point."

"With both my saves, I gambled to my left or right. If I saved it, great, if I don’t, I just go again you know."

"I went to my right twice and got lucky, and made two good saves there."

"We as host nation have a big task to win the sompetition as well but is not going to come easy."

"This year's tournament is not going to be easy, everything that will be participarting will be coming for the ultimate."

"The main ambition for us this season is to win the league and that’s something that I really want to achieve. We’ve said it since the start of the year; we made that our goal and we’re top at Christmas, so we have to carry that on."

"In the second part of the season I just want to keep doing what I’m doing, putting in the work and just seeing what happens. I’ve spent a lot of time with the first team this year and I’ve just got to keep working to get better and improve."

"I have believed and very confident we can make mother Ghana proud when the competition begins."

"Whenever I’m listening to Radio and watching TV, I hear how they(the media) promote and fight for the Black Stars and other Men’s national teams at the expense of we the Female teams which shouldn’t be the case."