Former Ghana international, Samuel Osei Kuffour has called on the Ghana Football Association to change the system they use in running football or they should forget about winning any major title for a foreseeable future.
The former Bayern Munich defender, who was a pundit on Pay TV right operators Super Sports, expressed his anger following the Black Stars semi-final defeat to Cameroon on Thursday in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations.
The Black Stars succumbed to a 2-0 defeat at the hands of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon in the semi-final at the Stade de Franceville courtesy Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui and Christian Bassogog strikes to end the team’s hope of ending their 35-year title drought.
“We need to go back and start everything on a fresh note if we want to achieve something in future because I believe if we want to achieve something, we need to go back to the youth system that helped us in the past because without the youth there’s no Black Stars,” Kuffour spoke on Super sports.
“Almost all our players in the current team have passed through the youth system but now we don’t care about the youth and we really expect the Black Stars go to a competition and bring the cup, no, it’s not done anywhere.”
“That’s what Spain did, and Germany did the same thing by drawing a ten-year plan to win the world cup and indeed they won it, so what’s our plan and philosophy. We can’t always depend on Asamoah Gyan and Dede Ayew, what will we do if they get injured? he quizzed.
“We need to have a back-up because there’s no player out there in there in the country now that you can tell me he’s going to be the next big thing. After Dede Ayew, Asamoah Gyan, Jordan Ayew and Teye Partey, who else, we don’t have the materials, so the next AFCON I’m worried," he concluded.