John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer for the NDC, is promising to make significant changes to the Black Stars, Ghana’s senior national team. This comes after their disappointing performance at the AFCON 2023 in Ivory Coast. It’s understandable that fans and supporters are looking for improvements and a fresh start for the team.
“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.”
During a campaign tour in the Northern region, Mr. Mahama announced that if he becomes the next government, he plans to rejuvenate the Black Stars by prioritizing the inclusion of local players.
“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.
