
Ghanaian football has experienced rough moments in the past few years under the watchful eyes of current Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kurt Okraku with the West African nation failing to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.
The four-time African champions had its home based national team miss out on the delayed 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN) after losing a two-legged clash [3-1 aggregate] to sworn rivals Nigeria in the final round of qualifying.
The senior national team, the Black Stars, will now shift attention to the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Chad and Madagascar in March but the journey remains tough as Ghana is level on 9 points atop the table with Comoros in four Group I games. The rough patches encountered have forced former GFA president Kwesi Nyantakyi to call for an urgent fix of challenges facing football in the country.
"I believe all is not well with our football. In time and under my administration, we were mostly playing at the semifinals or the finals and it got to a time where Ghanaians said the Black Stars and the GFA were not performing," he told Asempa FM. "They said playing in the semifinals is a financial loss to the country."
"But at the moment, we have failed to progress from the group stage in the last two editions of the AFCON tournament and now we could not qualify so it clearly indicates that there is something wrong with our game and it must be fixed. If it is the technical team, the Football Association or the management team it must be fixed," he added.
The Black Stars substandard performances at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar saw the team suffer elimination in the group phase. Ghana also bowed out at the group stage in the last two editions of the AFCON (2021 & 2023).
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