20th_century Ghana_national_football_team



black stars members in 1960s pose of ghana s successive international football trophies won.


the gold coast football association founded in 1920, succeeded ghana football association (gfa) in 1957, affiliated confederation of african football , fifa following year.


on 19 august 1962 @ accra sports stadium, black stars played spanish giants real madrid, @ time spanish champions, former european champions , intercontinental champions, , drew 3–3.


charles kumi gyamfi became coach in 1961, , black stars won successive african cup of nations titles, in 1963 , 1965, , achieved record win, 13–2 away kenya, shortly after second of these. reached final of tournament in 1968 , 1970, losing 1–0 on each occasion, dr congo , sudan respectively. domination of tournament earned black stars team nicknames of black stars of west africa , black stars of africa in 1960s. team had no success in fifa world cup qualification during era, , failed qualify 3 successive african cup of nations in 1970s, qualified olympic games football tournaments, becoming first team sub-saharan africa qualify games, , reaching quarter-finals in 1964 , withdrawing on political grounds in 1976 later winning 1982 african cup of nations. after 3 failures reach tournament final, 1992 african cup of nations saw black stars finish second.









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