Coach of the Black Stars B, Ibrahim Tanko has brushed aside the perception of player imposition by the Ghana Football Association.

In the run up to the last two AFCON qualifying matches against South Africa and Sao Tome and Principe, there were reports that some players were smuggled into C.K Akonnor's roster of invited players.

Although the Ghana FA denied those reports there was clearly some confusion with the selection for those two matches.

But Ibrahim Tanko a former assistant coach of the Black Stars says the GFA cannot force a coach to select a player he does not like.

He also adds that all coaches do is to rationalize the selection of players to the GFA something which he believes is not out of order.

“If they suggest I will look at the player since he is a Ghanaian and we want the best players to go to the tournament. A suggestion is not forcing me to take a particular player,” Coach Ibrahim Tanko stated.

“I can choose my players and sit with the management but I have to defend it,” the former Dortmund player told Joy Sports.

He added, “I don’t think they can force any coach if they don’t want to take a player who he doesn’t want.”

He bemoaned that imposing a player on coaches “would amount to interfering but as I said, I have to convince them based on what I want to play.”

“Everyone is watching football everywhere so all the players who are performing, everyone knows so it even makes it easy for us the coaches to choose the right ones,” Tanko concluded.