2022 World Cup: Inexperience might cost Black Stars, says Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu

Published on: 31 October 2022

Former Ghana midfielder, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu believes inexperience might play against the Black Stars at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Six new players have been integrated into the team ahead of the Mundial scheduled to kick off in November.

With Partey, Jordan, Andre, and Amartey among other players part of the squad, Badu believes inexperience might cost the team.

“I have been saying this and I will say it again, 2022 we have quality players," he told Accra-based Radio Gold.

“Comparing our team in 2014 to this one I think the only thing I will say is ours had well-experienced players.

“We had the likes of Kevin Prince Boateng, Michael Essien, Sulley Ali Muntari, Asamoah Gyan, Andre Ayew, Kwadwo Asamoah, Harrison Afful, and myself so you could see there was a lot of experience.

“We had tasted the African Cup, we had tasted a lot of high profile games like England national team, like Brazil and other high profile games like the qualifiers so looking at 2022, yes we have good quality but a lot of inexperience.

“In the aspect that, most of them this is the first time they are going to taste the national team jersey especially.

“And they haven’t played qualifiers, they haven’t played in the AFCON Cup, they haven’t played in these high profile games so, experience wise yes but this team has qualities," he added.

Ghana, who have been housed in Group H will open their campaign against Portugal on November 24 at Stadium 974 in Doha.

Four days later, the Black Stars return to action with a clash with South Korea at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan.

Ghana will wrap up their group stage adventure with their much-anticipated encounter with Uruguay at Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah.

The Black Stars will open camp on November 10. The team will play Switzerland in Abu Dhabi in their final preparatory game before flying to Qatar on November 19.

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