The Ghana Football Association has announced the appointment of Ibrahim Tanko as Ghana’s U23 Male team Coach.

According to a statement by GFA, its Executive Council took the decision to appoint the former Borussia Dortmund player, Tuesday.

Tanko, a former Black Stars assistant coach has been mandated to lead Ghana to the 2023 African Games to be hosted in Accra.

The Sporting Director for Accra Lions Football Club, has worked with the Cameroonian senior national team as their assistant coach before leaving to occupy a similar position with the Black Stars in 2017. Two years later, he was named the head coach of the Black Meteors, Ghana’s Under-23 side, and led them to the Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

He subsequently served as the head coach of Ghana’s home-based national team, the Local Black Stars, for five months before he was replaced.

Tanko played for King Faisal Babies before moving to Germany 1994 where he played for giants Borussia Dortmund before ending his playing career at Freiburg.

The Black Meteors failed to qualify for Beijing 2008 and even though they were at the 2011 All-Africa Games, the Ghana Olympic football team failed to qualify for the 2011 CAF U-23 Championship, thus did not participate in London 2012.