Black Stars performance in 2025 AFCON qualifiers was not good enough – Henry Asante Twum admits
Henry Asante TwumCommunications Director of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Henry Asante Twum has admitted that the Black Stars performance in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers was not good enough.The senior national team for the first time in 20 years will not compete at the AFCON tournament in Morocco after finishing at the bottom of Group F with three points.Ghana recorded three draws and three defeats after six games. Following the poor performance of the team, several football enthusiasts have called for the dissolution of the playing body and the technical team.However, speaking on the performance of the team in the qualifiers, Asante Twum admitted the performance of the team was not good enough.According to him, in times past, the Black Stars would qualify for the AFCON tournament with a game or two to end the qualifiers.”Black Stars’ performance in the 2025 AFCON qualifiers was not good enough and I admit that,” he said on News File on Joy FM.”When we lost against Angola, I knew it could come back to hunt us. I can pick out our game against Angola in Kumasi and probably against Sudan in Accra and we were not good enough in the rest of our games.”This is not the standard of the Black Stars because in previous qualifiers,with two games or a gameto spare, we were already there.”We knew mathematically there was a chance for us but we also needed to win our games and pick some points on the road and once that did not happen, the players will begin to panic and alsoonce injuries begin to set in, it makes everything difficult.”But generally, the performance of the Black Stars in the qualifierswas not good enough,” he added.Meanwhile, the Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) will decide on Otto Addo on Wednesday following the team’s failure to qualify for the AFCON.Black Stars will turn their attention to the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in March 2025 with games against Chad and Madagascar.
