{"id":42876,"date":"2025-02-14T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=42876"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:23:51","slug":"kofi-adams-warns-against-black-stars-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/kofi-adams-warns-against-black-stars-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kofi Adams warns against Black Stars failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams has forewarned that Black Stars&#8217; failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament should not be repeated again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ghana failed to make it to the AFCON 2025 for the first time in two decades prompting lots of disappointment within the football circles in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The BlackStars was housed in a group that had Sudan, Niger, and Angola but failed to advance, finishing button with no win from six games.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"Desmond Ofei reslishes exciting U20 Tournamnet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/desmond-ofei-reslishes-exciting-u20-tournamnet\/\">Desmond Ofei relishes exciting U20 Tournament<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the senior national team\u2019s failure to secure qualification, the newly appointed Sports Minister, Kofi Adams, remarked \u201cOur non-participation in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) must not happen again.\u201d He told Woezor TV.<\/p>\n<p>The BlackStars will hope to make amends for their failure to qualify as they play Chad and Madagascar in March for the qualifying series for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a title=\"GFA squashes by-election reports to replace Gifty Oware\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/gfa-squashes-by-election-to-replace-gifty-oware-false\/\">GFA squashes by-election reports to replace Gifty Oware<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ghana after four games played sits 2nd in Group I with nine points.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams has forewarned that Black Stars&#8217; failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament should not be repeated again. &nbsp; Ghana failed to make it to the AFCON 2025 for the first time in two decades prompting lots of disappointment within the football circles in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17026,8417],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afcon-2025","8":"category-featured"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kofi-Adams.png?fit=920%2C611&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-b9y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17582,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/kwesi-appiah-will-sacked-fails-win-2019-afcon-kofi-amoah\/","url_meta":{"origin":42876,"position":0},"title":"Kwesi Appiah will be sacked if he fails to win 2019 AFCON &#8211; Kofi Amoah","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"January 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chairman of the Normalization Committee has revealed that Ghana Coach Kwesi Appiah will be sacked if he fails to guide the Black Stars to win the 2019 AFCON Competition. 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