Ghana has intensified its chase for Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi to switch his international allegiance from the three Lions with presidential intervention after the Chelsea star visited Ghana’s President, Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House.

The Champions League winner who is currently on holiday in Ghana after being snubbed by Gareth Southgate for the upcoming European Championship, paid a courtesy call on Akufo-Addo on Monday evening, days after the 20-year-old opened the door for a possible international switch.

Akufo Addo’s Facebook page posted images of the meeting at the Jubilee House, which also had the country’s Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif in attendance.

President Akuffo-Addo wants to see the attacker line up for the Black Stars and urged the Minister to “explore the possibility” of Hudson Odoi switching nationality and representing Ghana at the international level.

“On Monday, 7th June 2021, Ghanaian-born Chelsea footballer, Callum Hudson-Odoi, paid a courtesy call on me at Jubilee House, the seat of our nation’s presidency. 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,” the President said.

Hudson-Odoi has three senior caps for England but remains eligible for a switch of national associations provided he does not add a fourth cap for the Three Lions.

The 20-year-old has opened the door for a possible international switch to represent Ghana, after being left out of England squad for the 2020 Euros:

“I think obviously when you’re young, you have the opportunity to play for England throughout all the years, from under 15 to under 16 all the way up,” the attacker said at an event last weekend.

“When they obviously gave me the opportunity to come I was in the country already. It’s something that I already had in my mind, set on already playing for England.”

“So it was the thing obviously choosing Ghana or England, and at the end of the day I said I always had the right people around me who always advise me – what’s right, what’s wrong. England came and I said ‘Yeah, let me go and play for my country.

“But I said Ghana is my home as well, so we’ll see, we’ll see. You’ll never know, so.”

Should Hudson-Odoi wish to play for the Black Stars, he will have to wait until November next year to do so as Fifa rules demand that players become eligible for a switch only three years after their last appearance for the association they wish to leave.