Ghana’s Female U20 side successfully earned their qualification for a sixth consecutive FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica on Sunday following a 2-1 win over Ethiopia at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Black Princesses gained an upper hand in the second leg after condemning the Ethiopians to a 3-0 win in the first leg of the final round, a fortnight ago.

With a huge away win, the Black Princesses looked to make the best of their home ground and got off to a flying start when first leg heroine Abdulai opened the scoring for the hosts after just two minutes into the encounter.

The Ghanaians continued to push for another to put the contest beyond the East Africans and Abdulai yet again found the breakthrough to hit her brace and extend the advantage for home side in the 25th minute.

The Ethiopians, however staged a fightback, having found themselves 2-0 down and Mesay Temwagen headed home a free kick from Aregash Kalsa four minutes later to pull one back before going into the half time.

In the second half, the visitors looked the more determined side with two goals ruled out for offside but the hosts held on firmly to earn their qualification despite the sending off of goalkeeper Cynthia Fiindib four minutes from time.

By virtue of the results, Ghana secured a 5-1 victory on aggregate – sealing a sixth consecutive FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup berth.

The Princesses join the likes of Nigeria as the two African representatives for the global youth tournament.

In a post match reaction, Black Princesses Coach, Ben Fokuo expressed his satisfaction with the results.

Fokuo reveals his determination of making it past the first round of the U20 World cup in Costa Rica.

“After our first game in Ethiopia, we needed to come back and make preparations for our match against Ethiopia today (Sunday). The game was a very nice game but we know we are yet to qualify for the world cup at Costa Rica and the girls did their best to make sure of that.

The whole match was very great and competitive which was everyone’s expectations. The girls did well, although we didn’t won by the margin we wanted but they did play according to instructions. We won 3:0 in Ethiopia and wanted scoring more here, but it didn’t happen.

Our target now is to break the jinx of not going past the group stage at the World Cup. Since we’ve qualified, we will strengthen areas that we are weak because Africa’s football can’t be likened to the Women’s World Cup, so we must work on ourselves before we get there” He told CAF online.