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Former Ghana defender Richard Kissi Boateng has indicated that, the failure to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations has piled a lot of pressure on the Black Stars ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
The Black Stars missed out on the ticket to Morocco this year after finishing bottom of Group F in the 2025 AFCON qualifiers behind Niger, Sudan and Angola.
It will be the first time of absence at the tournament in over a decade for the West African nation.
The attention will now be turned to the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Chad and Madagascar this month with the four time African champions faced with must win situations in both games.
Kissi Boateng whose club career took him to TP Mazembe of Congo and SuperSport of South Africa, spoke to Pan Africa Football.
“It is a bad sign for the nation not to qualify for this event [AFCON] because that is what brings the nation together.
“Ghana has a lot of religions and we are from different tribes but in terms of football, you realize that we speak one language and the football brings us together,” Kissi Boateng told Pan-Africa Football.
“So with this failure, it has put a lot of pressure on the society and even in our football industry. You can that nothing is moving well when it comes to football in Ghana.
“Because you can see that we are failing and so they [Ghana Football Association] need to do something.”
The 2010 FIFA World Cup quarter finalists will be at home to Chad on Marc 17 before a journey to Morocco against Madagascar on March 25.
Ghana shares nine points in Group I with islanders, Comoros after four matches played.
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