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Former Ghana international, Augustin Ahinful believes Black Stars' struggle is due to a lack of consistency in player call-ups to the national team.
This, according to him won’t help improve the team until the handlers realise that they must build the team around a core number of players and stop changing players every now and then.
Speaking to Graphic Sports in an interview, the rate at which the handlers kept changing players in every national assignment suggested there was no plan and noted that it wasn’t the best way to build a formidable team.
“Our team lack a bit of consistency, we’re not consistent in the sense that we keep changing our team every now and then. In the national team, you can’t keep on changing players all the time. When you do that, you have issues.
“Everybody talks about Stephen Appiah’s era and what they did before we qualified for the World Cup. Yes! Because there was consistency. At that time every call-up you’ll see John Mensah, John Paintsil, Laryea Kingson, Stephen Appiah, Sulley Muntari, and Michael Essien so there was consistency.
“Now we don’t have that. The last match we played at Kumasi against Central African Republic and then the one we played in America, the players that we invited basically were not the same players that were in America,” he admitted.
Ghana as part of their preparations ahead of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) engaged in two friendlies against Mexico and the USA.
However, the team lost 2-0 to the CONCACAF champions before a 4-0 defeat to the US Men's national team.
The Black Stars will face Madagascar and Comoros in the World Cup qualifiers next month before turning their attention to the AFCON in Ivory Coast next year where they have been paired with Egypt, Cape Verde and Mozambique in Group B.
This, according to him won’t help improve the team until the handlers realise that they must build the team around a core number of players and stop changing players every now and then.
Speaking to Graphic Sports in an interview, the rate at which the handlers kept changing players in every national assignment suggested there was no plan and noted that it wasn’t the best way to build a formidable team.
“Our team lack a bit of consistency, we’re not consistent in the sense that we keep changing our team every now and then. In the national team, you can’t keep on changing players all the time. When you do that, you have issues.
“Everybody talks about Stephen Appiah’s era and what they did before we qualified for the World Cup. Yes! Because there was consistency. At that time every call-up you’ll see John Mensah, John Paintsil, Laryea Kingson, Stephen Appiah, Sulley Muntari, and Michael Essien so there was consistency.
“Now we don’t have that. The last match we played at Kumasi against Central African Republic and then the one we played in America, the players that we invited basically were not the same players that were in America,” he admitted.
Ghana as part of their preparations ahead of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) engaged in two friendlies against Mexico and the USA.
However, the team lost 2-0 to the CONCACAF champions before a 4-0 defeat to the US Men's national team.
The Black Stars will face Madagascar and Comoros in the World Cup qualifiers next month before turning their attention to the AFCON in Ivory Coast next year where they have been paired with Egypt, Cape Verde and Mozambique in Group B.