Kofi Adams sends clear warning over Ghana’s World Cup hopes

Ghana’s Sports and Recreation Minister, Kofi Adams, has stressed the need to start preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Ghana missed out on the just-ended 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Morocco but managed to pick a ticket for their fifth global football festival after topping Group I with 25 points from 10 qualifying games.

The Black Stars suffered a 2-0 defeat against the Blue Samurai of Japan at the Toyota Stadium on November 14 before a 1-0 defeat to South Korea four days later at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in the 2025 Kirin Cup.

The four-time African champions will face European giants Germany on March 30 in Stuttgart as part of preparation for the expanded 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada, the USA and Mexico.

Ghana has qualified for its fifth FIFA World Cup

Kofi Adams said, “We have to start [because] anything that you want to succeed, you have to plan ahead of time. I always believe that planning is the solution to any challenge that will confront you,” Kofi Adams told Panafricafootball.

“If you don’t plan well, any challenge you face, you cannot deal with it, so we are planning so that no such situations that possibly have confronted us in the past will confront us.

Ghana is paired in Group L with European duo England, Croatia and CONCACAF representatives Panama. Ghana’s best performance at the World Cup was in 2010, where they equalled Senegal and Cameroon’s feat, but the record has since been broken by Morocco, who reached the semifinals in Qatar 2022.