Africa Cup of Nations 2008, team profile:Ghana

January 15, 2008

The Ghana domestic sport team, popularly famous as the Negroid Stars, is the domestic connexion sport aggroup of Ghana and is dominated by the Ghana Football Association. Before gaining independence from Great kingdom in 1957, the land played as the Gold Coast.

Although the aggroup did not remember for the grownup FIFA World Cup until 2006 they had actually eligible for fivesome straightforward athletics Games Football Tournaments when the rivalry was ease a flooded grownup National Team competition. The aggroup hit won the individual Cup of Nations quaternary nowadays that is in 1963, 1965, 1978, and 1982, making Ghana the ordinal most flourishing aggroup in the contest’s history.

Ghana has ever enjoyed large success at the another FIFA Tournaments. The Ghana U17 team, the Negroid Starlets hit won the FIFA Under-17 World Cup denomination twice and ended as runner-up twice. The Ghana U20 team, the Negroid Satellites hit also ended as runner-up at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup twice as well. The Ghana athletics Team, the Negroid Meteors became the 1st individual Country to get a ribbon in Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

After feat finished 2005 unbeaten, Ghana won the FIFA World Rankings Most Improved aggroup of the assemblage honor and they reached the ordinal ammo of the 2006 FRG World Cup.

Ghana aggroup captain- author Appiah

TEAM BIO

Nickname: The Negroid Stars
Association: Ghana Football Association
Confederation: CAF (Africa)
Head coach: Claude Le Roy
Captain: Stephen Appiah
Most caps: Abédi Pelé (73)[1]
Top scorer: Abédi Pelé (33)
Home stadium: Ohene Djan Sports Stadium
FIFA code: GHA
FIFA ranking: 43
Highest FIFA ranking: 15 (April 1996)
Lowest FIFA ranking: 89 (June 2004)
Elo ranking: 23
Highest Elo ranking: 14 (30 June 1966)
Lowest Elo ranking: 97 (14 June 2004)