Ghana defender Alexander Djiku believes Black Stars must be spurred by the prestige of securing a place at the 2022 World Cup to pick themselves up from the disappointment of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n The West Africans had a time to forget at the continental showpiece in Cameroon by their group stage elimination following a defeat to debutants Comoros in their last group game.<\/p>\n The Stars are set to return to action in two months when they play in the final round of the World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n “Words will certainly not be enough to erase the frustration,” Djiku posted on social media after Ghana’s poor campaign.<\/p>\n “We are disappointed and also sorry for our Ghanaian people to have failed at this stage of the competition.<\/p>\n “We must stay focused because qualifying for the World Cup must motivate us more than anything.”<\/p>\n Having opened their Afcon with a 1-0 loss to Morocco, Ghana picked a point in their second group game following a 1-1 draw with Gabon.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the Black Stars saw another disappointment by a 3-2 loss to Comoros, a result that left them bottom of the table.<\/p>\n Former Ghana playmaker Charles Taylor, meanwhile, blames the poor showing on an over-reliance on foreign-based players, snubbing Djiku from his list of a few exceptions.<\/p>\n \u201cAll those who play abroad, only four of them have more quality than those who play in the local league,\u201d he told Silver FM.<\/p>\n \u201c[Daniel] Amartey, [Daniel-Kofi] Kyereh, Partey [Partey] and Fatawu Issahaku are the only quality players in the squad. These are the boys who should be kept and blended with some serious local players.<\/p>\n \u201cNobody hates anybody because I was a better player than all those playing now. Playing in a foreign league doesn\u2019t make you better than those who play here.<\/p>\n \u201cThe local players are better than those who came to represent us at the Afcon. They will say that they are not matured. I don\u2019t know, if they sell maturity at Makola [market], we should go and buy some for the players.”<\/p>\n Ghana will learn their opponent for the World Cup playoff on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghana defender Alexander Djiku Ghana defender Alexander Djiku believes Black Stars must be spurred by the prestige of securing a place at the 2022 World Cup to pick themselves up from the disappointment of the Africa Cup of Nations. The West Africans had a time to forget at the continental showpiece in Cameroon by their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,262,397,717,85,2667,607,784],"class_list":["post-760426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-cup","tag-defender","tag-djiku","tag-ghana","tag-motivation","tag-pain","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ghana](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/21050237.295.jpg\" "\\"Ghana")
Ghana defender Alexander Djiku<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n