Ghana national football team profile

The Ghana national football teamis the national association football team of Ghana and is controlled by the Ghana Football Association.the team did not qualify for the senior FIFA World Cup until 2006, they had qualified for five straight Olympic Games Football Tournaments when the tournament was still a full senior national team competition. The team have won the Africa Cup of Nations four times (in 1963, 1965, 1978, and 1982), making Ghana the second most successful team in the contest's history, behind Egypt. The Olympic Team, the Black Meteors, in 1992 became the first African country to win a medal at football.
After going through 2005 unbeaten, Ghana won the FIFA most improved team of the year award and they reached the second round of the 2006 Germany World Cup.
Ghana slipped to 89th place in the FIFA World Rankings, but a new generation of players who went to the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship final became the core of the team at the 2002 African Cup of Nations and the 2004 Olympic Games[7], and were undefeated for a year in 2005 and reached the finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the first time the team had reached the global stage of the tournament. Ghana started with a 2–0 defeat to eventual champions Italy, but wins over the Czech Republic (2–0) and USA (2–1) saw them through to the second round, where they were beaten 3–0 by Brazil. They again qualified for the 2010 World Cup finals. 2010 World Cup qualification.
The Ghanaian team went on to secure a 100 percent record in their qualification campaign, winning the group and becoming the first African team to qualify for 2010 FIFA World Cup. The World Cup Draw in Cape Town on the 4 December 2009 saw the Ghanaian being placed alongside Germany, Serbia and Australia in Group D.
Provisional squad list:
GK Stephen ADAMS
GK Daniel AGYEI
GK Stephen AHORLU
GK Richard KINGSON
Eric ADDO
Lee ADDY
Dominic ADIYIAH
Emmanuel AGYEMANG-BADU
Matthew AMOAH
Anthony ANNAN
Stephen APPIAH
Kwadwo ASAMOAH
Andre AYEW
Ibrahim AYEW
Derek BOATENG
Kevin Prince BOATENG
Haminu DRAMAN
Michael ESSIEN
Asamoah GYAN
Samuel INKOOM
Laryea KINGSTON
Bernard KUMORDZI
John MENSAH
Jonathan MENSAH
Sulley MUNTARI
Quincy OWUSU-ABEYIE
John PANTSIL
Hans SARPEI
Prince TAGOE
Isaac VORSAH

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