
Former Ghana captain Charles Akonnor has urged all stakeholders to put their hands on deck to help revive the fallen standards of Ghana football.
Apart from Premier League club Dreams FC who reached the semi-finals of last season’s CAF Confederation Cup, top clubs Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko have struggled to reach the group stage much less the quarterfinals of continental football in the past few years.
National team football has not been left out of the struggles as the Black Stars failed to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, the first failure to reach the AFCON since 2004. Ghana's domestic-based national team, the Black Galaxies, also missed out on qualification for the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania after losing a two-legged duel to Nigeria.
Akonnor, who captained the Black Stars at four different AFCON's, believes in the need for all and sundry to come together to strengthen the nation’s football:
“We need to rise up to the occasion because things are falling apart. We talk of the national team which has not qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations,” C K Akonnor told Radio Gold Sports.
“But when was the last time any of our clubs qualified for the quarter finals of the CAF Champions League and the Confederation Cup and all that? We need to rise up to the occasion. We can transform things, we can change it but we all have to get on board not just the FA alone, all of us especially you the media."
“You need to help change things so that we can see ourselves at the top again,” Akonnor told Radio Gold Sports. Ghana, after failing to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, will now turn their attention to the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers which resumes in March with a clash against Chad at home and Madagascar away. The Black Stars are level with Comoros at the top of Group I with 9 points from 4 matches.
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