USA to host Black Stars in friendly

For the first time since 2014, the Black Stars of Ghana will play a friendly against United States Men’s National team at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut.

The match against Ghana on July 1st will be a friendly ahead of the Gold Cup which begins for the US on July 8th.

Ghana, which is playing Mexico in a June 28 friendly at NRG Stadium in Houston, will then take on the U.S. as part of its summer trip.

The USA and Ghana have never played a friendly match but have met in the past three World Cups, with the Black Stars eliminating the US in group play in 2006 and in the Round of 16 in 2010.

The USMNT did earn a measure of revenge in their opening group game of the 2014 World Cup, thanks to John Brooks's late header.

The Americans advanced with Germany out of their group before the US fell to Belgium in the first knockout round.