Minister nominated for Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams has said that even though sports goes beyond football alone but wants to see the Black Stars rise again.
The Ghana senior national team is currently experiencing a sharp decline.
After suffering back-to-back group phase elimination at the 2021 and 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournaments in Cameroon and Ivory Coast respectively, the Black Stars for the first two decades failed to qualify for the 2025 AFCON tournament.
Ghana finished at the bottom of Group F with three points after six games recording three defeats and three draws.
"Sports is not football. Sports is not Black Stars. Sports goes beyond Black Stars and football should go beyond Black Stars but the Black Stars is the ultimate," Mr Adams, who is the Member of Parliament for Buem constituency said on GHOne TV.
"We want to see our Black Stars back again. Like what the Nigerian president [Bola Ahmed Tinubu] said when he came around here that the Black Stars is rising again and for me indirectly, that was what he was referencing in his statement though he was talking about Ghana and the African continent," he added.
The Black Stars who also suffered a group phase elimination at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will now turn their attention to the 2026 World Cup qualifiers which resume in March later this year with games against Chad and Madagascar.
Kofi Adams is expected to face the Vetting Committee and if approved, he will replace Mustafa Ussif who served as Sports Minister since 2021 under the New Patriotic Party government led by Nana Akufo-Addo.
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