Former Vice President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Fred Pappoe, has underscored the urgent importance of gathering our top talents as Ghana endeavors to secure qualification for the highly anticipated 2026 World Cup.
With soaring aspirations, Pappoe’s call to unite the best players during an interview on Peace FM represents a crucial moment in Ghanaian football, reigniting hopes of a triumphant campaign.
I will say we can qualify it is not because of who we are going to play because now the game in Africa has leveled up. Sometimes we Ghanaians don’t see it like that and accept it like that. To me the best way that our chances to qualify will be brighter is to prepare well within FIFA rules.”
“Because you won’t get time to camp for 3 weeks or 4 weeks you don’t have that chance that thing is no more. A match will coincide with when they have ended their league when the leagues are on recess like the way now the European leagues are on recess. Even that the boys will be going back to their teams so the preparation players won’t be available for you the players will also be released 4 or 5 days before a match.”
“So what we need to do is to make sure if we are calling the 25 or 26 we will call it should be our very best that at any particular point in time they are playing actively in their various teams. Because we won’t get time for the coach to train them for a certain period of time it is just going to be our they will jelly together and other things. We just have to call our best we just have to approach it with our best,” he is quoted to have said on Footballghana.com.
As the nation prepares for the qualifiers, all eyes are on the football fraternity’s response to this appeal.
Ghana has been drawn in Group I alongside Mali, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Comoros, and Chad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.