Former Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah has laid to bare some of the weaknesses that engulfed the Black Stars at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The country ignominiously exited the competition from the group stages after the team called the bluff of the country to ransom demanding their monies rather concentrating on the core mandate of the tournament.
A lot of says have been heard and read on what accounted to that from those within and without the team after eight years of the tournament in Brazil.
The aspiring General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, who led the country to the mundial as the Sports Minister, in an interview with Class FM, has stated that coach of the side James Kwesi Appiah could have helped matters if he had been "strong" in his approach to the team.
Though he believes the team was a good side, he accepts that they could have been better if then coach had been man enough, the team would have been better.
“It’s not about Black or White Coach, it’s about capacity. I think Coach Kwesi Appiah with the Black Stars at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was decent, but he showed some weakness. I kept on saying that he needed to be a bit stronger with the squad,” he told Class FM.
Ghana has been put in a group together with Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
