The flagbearer for the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama is promising a total overhaul of the senior national team, the Black Stars, after their shambolic performance at the ongoing AFCON 2023 in Ivory Coast.
"We just came from the Africa Cup of Nations, and we performed abysmally and disastrously," he said.
Adding that, "We performed abysmally because we are not growing our football, and so we are going to work with the Ghana Football Association to start catching them young so that we can train them and give them to local teams to gain experience before, if they want to travel abroad, they can travel.”
Mr. Mahama, who was speaking at a campaign tour in the Nothern region, said his next government will revamp the team by ensuring homegrown players for the Black Stars.
"We will build the new Black Stars based on homegrown players. Domestic players who have trained together for a long time and work as a team, and then we will bring the foreign players to come and blend with them," he continued.
"If you bring only foreign players, they don't play together and play in their teams, and then when it's time for competition and you tell them to come and play, it won't work. The core of the Black Stars must be made of domestic players.”
"We are going to overhaul Ghana football in collaboration with the Football Association," he promised.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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This Mahama guy is a concert man paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Do you think you are only talking to NDC fanatics? This guy is corrupt to the core. He must not get near our presidency.
Its the best way to assemble the best Black stars team. We need to groom the local players to play as a team. Ghana has always done better that way. if you gather about 18 good local players who train regularly every week for 3 days a week , You will stand a chance of building a core competent team within 6 months. and then add just a few foreign based players about 5 to compliment. Once the nation rewards the local players well they will deliver. They will be more hungry for success . This method for the under age teams has brought us much success in the past. We can't keep on doing the same thing with the black stars and expect different results.
I thought this same John Mahama was the president of Ghana when the country participated in the Brazil, 2014 world cup and came back with scandals as their version of the cup. At that time, Ghana had no local players, no colts teams, no inter schools and colleges sports festivals. When you are speaking to people who already know you, you select your words carefully.
Eih Mahama oh dabi, dabi, dabi da
Stop twisting your childish promises... Haayy man..