2022 World Cup: GFA boss Kurt Okraku optimistic Black Stars will make Ghanaians proud
The president of the Ghana Football Association, Kurt Okraku has reiterated that he is confident the Black Stars will excel at the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be staged in Qatar this year.
The Black Stars qualified to the global mundial via a play off aggregate win over rivals Nigeria to secure one of Africa’s five slots alongside Senegal, Cameroon, Tunisia and Morocco.
Speaking at the book launch of former Black Stars player Mohammed Polo, the president was full of confidence that the Srars will go and make the nation proud.
“Mohammed Polo has come and done his bit, it is left with me and you to also do our part in our mission to make our dear nation great and strong.”
“Our beloved Black Stars are in the Mundial (2022 World Cup) and we will go there and make our nation great and strong and proudly defend our colors and we will go there with the one and only professor Mohammed Ahmed ‘Polo’,” he added.
In recent weeks, the GFA has been doing some recruitment for the Black Stars with Kurt confirming that six new players will be joining the team as they have officially switched nationality to Ghana.
Mohammed Salisu, Inaki Williams, Tariq Lamptey, Patrick Pfeifer, Stephen Ambrosius and Ransford-Yeboah have confirmed their availability, giving the Black Stars a huge boost ahead of the tournament.
Ghana were drawn in Group H alongside Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea and will open their campaign against Portugal on November 24 at Stadium 974 in Doha.
Portugal won’t be a new opponent as Ghana played them in the group stages of the 2014 World Cup where they lost 2-1.
Four days later, the Black Stars will clash off with South Korea at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan in their first meeting at the World Cup.
Ghana will wrap up their group stage adventure with their much-anticipated encounter with Uruguay at Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah as they seek to revenge that painful quaterfinals penalties loss, which denied them a chance of becoming the first African country to advance to the semi-finals of the World Cup.
