The Black Princesses will play Polish side Sleza Wroclaw, a team in the Orlen Ekstraliga Kobiet, in their first international friendly match in Wroclaw, Poland.

The game will be held behind closed doors as Ghana continue preparations ahead of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.

The friendly offers Black Princesses head coach Charles Sampson another valuable opportunity to assess his squad, build cohesion and sharpen tactics.

The game will be played on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at the Stadion Sportowy Olawka in Wroclaw at 14:00 GMT.

The Black Princesses are making their eighth consecutive appearance at the biennial tournament, aiming to make it past the group stage for the first time in their history.

Nearly nine months in office as executive of the Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF), the Dauda Fuseini-led administration is yet to make an important appointment to fill a key position-Public Relations Officer.

It is, therefore, worth examining how the executive has managed to navigate several storms without an official Public Relations Officer (PRO) to communicate its side of stories to the public.

What this mean is that nature has a way of filling such vacuums. They do not stay as such for long.

That is exactly what is happening at the GBF with controversies that followed another poor performance by the Ghana amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers or generally, Team Ghana at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.

The controversy followed questions about the criteria for selection of boxers into the national team- that exercise should surely rest on the shoulders of the Head Coach of the team; in this case Coach Ofori Asare.

In instances where there are technical teams in place, the Head Coach would be required to conduct the exercise with members of the team.

But when the Black Bombers perform poorly and the Head Coach claims he has no idea about how the boxers were selected, certainly it leaves doubts in the mind of followers and stakeholders as to what is happening at Dauda Fuseini’s GBF.

Without a response from the GBF, a PRO from the previous administration filled that vacuum; stepping into the role with vim and vigour but with whose authority or permission, it has not been established.

This former PRO may have assumed the role out of his love and passion for the sport. Across both radio and television, he did his advocacy for the GBF until his status was questioned by the legendary broadcaster Fiifi Banson on Sporty FM.

“Are you a member of the GBF?” was the first question by the broadcaster.

And his response was “No, I’ve been a communicator for the Federation officially from 2020, and I’m still doing advocacy for them.”

“But you’re not a member of the GBF?” was the next.

Again, he responded in the negative, explaining that “I’m not an elected member of the GBF. I was appointed in 2020 with an official letter as their communicator and I’ve been doing that since 2020.”

The next question was: “Do they recognise you as their official communications person?

“Of course, the president and I communicate and he has not told me anything otherwise,” was his answer.

One would therefore ask why a ‘boxing advocate’ should be subjected to this kind of cross-examination.

The answer is simple; it is because Dauda Fuseini has failed to make an appointment to fill that void since he ascended the GBF throne in December 2025.

This must be brought to his attention because the office of the PRO is one that should not be taken for granted.

If the issues of the GBF are left to ordinary boxing aficionados, they would end up causing more harm than good to the GBF.

And maybe, with an official spokesperson in place, the federation can issue a comprehensive statement addressing preparation and selection of boxers to the Games and whether indeed Coach Asare was involved or not.

By Andrew Nortey