Ghana Football Association president, Kurt Okraku has broken his silence following the Black Stars disastrous 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.
Ghana exited at group stage after failing to win any of their group games. The four-time AFCON champions drew two games and suffered a defeat against, finishing in third place in Group B, behind Cape Verde and Egypt.
This means Ghana has now failed to progress to the knockout stage of the continental showpiece having last exited at group stage during AFCON 2021 held in Cameroon.
At a media engagement on Wednesday, the FA boss expressed his displeasure about the Black Stars performance at the AFCON.
“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 period for reflection. 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.
