Ghana Football Association President Kurt Okraku has taken to social media to express his disappointment over Ghana’s failure to appear at the AFCON for the first time in 20 years.
Ghana finished bottom in group F without a win in six games in a catastrophic African Cup of Nations qualifiers for Morocco 2025. The once West African giants faced competition from Angola, Sudan, and Niger but could not ride over any one of them in a separate international break and accelerate at a faster rate downward the graph.
“From the highest heights of world football on the 29th of March 2022 to the lowest ebb of Afcon qualifying matches. My heart bleeds. This is not what we want or what we bargained for. At this point, only cool heads can win, and we, as leaders of our sport, will stay together, be honest with ourselves, and fix this problem.”
”The road to full recovery after normalization is bumpy and rough, but our collective efforts and patience will win, and Ghana, our beloved country, will win. As a Black Stars fan and as the leader, I share in your pain and our pain. We will rise from this temporary setback it shall be well”.
Kurt Okuraku, who first ascended the GFA throne in 2019, has supervised the worst-ever major tournaments of the Black Stars and has come under incessant criticism.
The four-time African Champions exited the AFCON at the round of 16 in Egypt and suffered back-to-back group stage exits in the subsequent tournaments in Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire.
The darkest era in the history of Ghana football is the reality that the country cannot qualify for the tournament that makes it once not only a powerhouse but also a CAF founding member.
He, however, could not hide taking solace and credit from Ghana’s appearance in the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
Bright Jnr – Ahotor Sports Desk
