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Ghana and the World Cup
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GHANA & THE WORLD CUP
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Ghana and football In Ghana, football is the sport. From an early age, Ghanaians really do eat, drink, and sleep football. To play for the Black Stars, Ghana's national team, is every schoolboy's dream. Britain’s first black professional footballer, Arthur Wharton, was Ghanaian. He came to the UK in 1882 and died in the 1930s. A more recent major Ghana player is Marcel Desailly who played in the French team that won the World Cup in 1998 nad now lives in Accra (he built the unique Lizzy's Sports Complex in East Legon). Many current Black Stars play in Europe.
The Black Stars have won the Africa Cup of Nations four times (in 1963, 1965, 1978, and 1982), making Ghana the second most successful team in the contest's history, behind Egypt. The Black Satellites were runners up in the 1993 and 2001 editions of the Under-20 World Cup after losing to Brazil and Argentina, respectively. After going through 2005 unbeaten, Ghana won the FIFA most improved team of the year award and they reached the second round of the 2006 Germany World Cup.
Ghana 2010 In April 2012, the Ghana Football Association appointed James Kwesi Appiah as the new head coach of the Black Stars. Appiah, assistant coach of the Black Stars since 2008, replaces Serbian Goran Stevanovic, who was sacked last month after Ghana's failure to reach the Africa Cup of Nations final. This was a surprise appointment as Appiah, who led the Ghana under-23 side to victory at the 2011 All African Games but is inexperienced at the highest level. The coach position was vacant since the end of the African Cup in February 2017 and James Kwesi Appiah, 56, is back as the Black Stars coach since May 1, 2017.
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