BLACK STARS AFCON JOURNEY. SO FAR, SO WHAT?

 Black stars fans unhappy over the team’s 40 year run without winning the AFCON trophy.


story by Evans Adjei      -    21-10-2021


Black stars fans cheering their team on (source: online)


Some football fans of the black stars have expressed worry over the team’s inability to win the AFCON trophy in the last 40 years.

The Ghana black stars remains one of the most prosperous teams at the African Cup of Nations which have won the competition on four different occasions.

The first title was won in 1963, followed by another triumph in 1965 in Tunisia, when the Black Stars defeated the host 3-2 after extra time.

The stars had massive dominance in that era and went ahead to win the third and fourth trophies in 1978 and 1982 respectively.

The domination gradually declined in subsequent tournaments, seeing the national team go trophy less for 40 years now.

Black stars team pose for picture (source: online)

This has divided some of the fans of the black stars, with some casting doubt over the quality of the team and some others hoping the team wins the 2022 tournament.

“For the current crop of players, I’m sure they all want to win something because it’s been very long and they want to prove what they are worth. As you can see, the old players were not able to bring the cup home even though they went to the final so I’m sure these young boys will do it,” One supporter said. 

“We are not playing any kind of attractive and solid and convincing football. Since 2010, I’ve been watching and I started losing hope so i stopped following and I don’t think in the upcoming AFCON, we can even make it to the semis,” another supporter said.

However, Head of Communications at the GFA Mr. Henry Asante Twum has revealed that the team is well positioned to win the fifth trophy because the FA have provided the team what it takes to win the trophy.

As far as we are concerned, you need all your players to be fully fit, you also need to put packages together to motivate your players and I think we are on a good path in that direction. You need a sound technical team to be able to mastermind your campaign and for us Milo has come in, he has a strong backroom staff with the likes of Maxwell Konadu and  Otto Addo with him and Richard Kingston”.



 


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