President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, has called the Black Star's failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup "a huge disappointment," and said the team must ''restrategize'' to avoid a similar outcome in 2020.
For the first in over a decade, Ghana was missing when the draw for the 2018 World Cup was conducted last month with the 32 best teams in the globe finding their opponents.
This is after Black Stars missed out on the ticket to Egypt after finishing third in qualifying Group E with 7 points.
The nation’s inability to make the Mundial ends a run of three straight tournaments and Kwesi Nyantakyi has revealed his displeasure at the latest development.
“Going to the World Cup has become part and parcel of our lives and so, for me, it is an anticlimax.
It is a big disappointment to me as a person and for me as the head of the football association, I think that it is not encouraging at all that we will not be able to respond to the roll call of the world’s biggest footballing nations in Russia.
But we cannot do anything about it now. We just have to put the past behind us and go back to the drawing board. We have to restrategize and look forward to 2022 and ensure that we do not miss the boat the next time.”
Ghana had a poor qualifying campaign recording only own win (a 5-1 win away to Congo Brazzaville), four draws, and a loss.