Following the poor show of the Black Stars at the ongoing 2023 African Cup of Nations, the Ghana Football Association has held a media engagement in Kumasi on Wednesday.
Ghana failed to win any of their three group matches and was eliminated at the group stage.
The powerhouse of West Africa lost one game and drew two, placing third in Group B behind Egypt and Cape Verde.
The once upon a time superpower of West Africa again failed to advance to the knockout stage of the continental championship after losing at the group stage of the tournament hosted in Cameroon in 2021.
Addressing the media, the Ghana FA President Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku voiced his discontent with the Black Stars’ disastrous AFCON performance at the media appearance on Wednesday.
“Ghana was represented by our beloved Black Stars. The happenings during the tournament has not been what we as Ghanaians would have loved to see and as servant of football we’ve never been happy about how our team performed”
“As an FA, we provided and ensured that the team had all the logistics that they needed to enable them perform, what did we see of the team, the performance of the Black Stars fell below our expectations.
“Clearly, what we saw of the team was not what we expected. That target of envy has eluded Ghana for over 40 years and as servant of football our dream, our hope, our desire is to break that target of envy back to Ghana, it didn’t work out”
“The period between our last game against Mozambique and today have been a reflected period for us.
“We saw our Black Stars in Abidjan, it is not the Black Stars that you want to see and this is not the Black Stars I want to see, I want to see our Black Stars and all our national teams and all league clubs play good football and win games” he said.