Former Ghana midfielder Stephen Appiah says Otto Addo’s Black Stars can perform as well in the 2022 Qatar World Cup as he and his teammates did in Germany in 2006.
16 years ago, Ghana proved wrong all the prognosis to seal through to the next round of the World Cup in Germany beating USA and Czech Republic in group stage despite being underdogs.
And Appiah believed the current Black Stars team can replicate that performance this year in Qatar even though they will face off with Portugal, Uruguay and South in what is the Group of death before crashing out against Brazil in the round of 16 (0-3).
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“It’s going to be difficult, 2006 when we went to the World Cup in Germany we were underdogs”, Appiah told Al Jazeera.
“We played against Italy we lost our first game and beat the Czech Republic 2-0 who were number two in the world, played USA, number 5 in the world, and we beat them. We are capable of doing that.”
In addition, Andre Ayew and teammates will take on Switzerland this Thursday, November 17 for their last friendly (at 10:00 GMT) before Portugal clash next week (November 24).