Ameenu Shardow, team manager of the Black Stars, has staunchly defended the squad despite their failure to secure a spot in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).
Ghana finished at the bottom of Group F with three points, recording three defeats and three draws in a campaign to forget.
Shardow argued that the team’s performances on the pitch were far better than the disappointing results suggest.
“It’s only the results which are yet to come, but if you look at the performances of the team in most of the games, we performed better than the results that we got,” Shardow stated during an interview on *Happy FM*.
Reflecting on the qualifiers, he pointed to specific matches where the Black Stars were unlucky. “If we are going to be honest and factual to happenings, our first game against Angola—did anything suggest to you that we deserved to lose the game?” he questioned.
Shardow urged fans to separate emotions from analysis, emphasizing the need for a detailed review of the games. “When you pipe down the emotions and go deeper into the details and analyze just the games, you’ll see that we performed well,” he said.
He went further, claiming the team’s overall performance should have been enough to secure the top spot in Group F. “If the performance of the team in all the games that we played is anything to go by, Ghana was supposed to top the group—unless you want to be blind to the fact,” Shardow added.
Despite the defense of the players, Ghana’s campaign ended on a sour note with a 2-1 defeat to Niger at the Accra Sports Stadium, marking one of the team’s lowest points in recent history.
