Ghana Football Carries A Burden On A Head With No Neck

By Napoleon Ato Kittoe

Mountain Afadjato, located in the Eastern region of Ghana, is the highest point on the ground in the West African nation. A height of 885 metres above sea level. It comes out as the classical reality when the monstrosity of the football woes of Ghana is compared to this geographical entity. `

Many adults in Ghana today, with biological children in their preteens, were themselves toddlers or infants when the Black Stars last won the African Cup of Nations. We are talking about more than forty years ago, dating back to 1982. 

Unfortunately, the freeze in achievements is accentuated by contemporary managers of the male national soccer team. They too will have a reason to point fingers at the political administrators, who have for several years failed to develop a radical plan to salvage the sinking ship. 

The offense of internal forces has extenuation in the form of an entity called FIFA which interferes in the domestic affairs of nations, often followed by the askance of national political authorities, but which  have no powers except to kowtow to external influence when things in their backyards are not looking too good. 

FIFA‘s decision to insulate national football authorities, including the failed ones, from political control has downed the performance of the Ghana Black Stars. When the managers of the team and the playing body underperform, those responsible for the fall are able to walk away untouched. They are not answerable to FIFA when things go wrong with the team’s performance. 

The national government and the generality of the people can only look on. They can do nothing, but if they want something done, they touch the Football Association and get a ban. Such a ban will help Ghana regroup, reformulate, and recreate in the period of the ban or oblivion in international sports. 

A major part of the cancerous infection in Ghana football is the effect of dramatic irony. It is a literary device that describes the situation where the audience knows more than those on stage acting. The limited level of awareness of those on the stage stems from the fact that they are not supposed to know the end from the beginning, and other scenes drawn up to telescope into each other to achieve an outcome. 

Out of the notion above, at least, these conclusions may be made about Ghana football. Their mistakes or the weaknesses of the team are permanent, despite years of coaching. 

All you must do if you want to score against Ghana is watch the video clips of their previous matches and exploit the glaring gaps. There is this tendency to collapse after scoring, the loss of concentration in the defense in the dying minutes of matches, and their proneness to concede goals when the Ghana goalmouth is set boiling in a melee and the opponent strikes a shot through the forest of legs. 

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