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<\/div>\nFormer Youth and Sports Minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has taken a swipe at the Ghana Football Association (GFA) on how the various national teams have been poorly managed.<\/p>\n
In the last 24 months, the various national teams have failed to perform in major tournaments.<\/p>\n
Some failed to qualify for major competitions or faced embarrassing early exits when they do qualify.<\/p>\n
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The Black Stars suffered back-to-back group stage exits at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n
The Black Galaxies under Annor Walker suffered a similar fate at the 2023 CHAN, with the Black Meteors failing to qualify for next year\u2019s Olympic Games after their group stage exit at the U-23 AFCON with Ibrahim Tanko in charge as the head coach.<\/p>\n
The U-17 team, the Black Starlets, hosted and failed to qualify for the U-17 AFCON, while the U-20 team, which entered the qualifying series as defending champions, failed to qualify for the U-20 AFCON.<\/p>\n
However,\u00a0Nii Lante Vanderpuye, says the GFA\u2019s lazy approach to player development is the reason for the continuous poor showings of the national teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe continue to live on past glories and we are suffering,\u201d the Member of Parliament\u00a0of Odododiodio Constituency told Citi TV.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are doing the same thing, the cow-dung management style. We wait, and when there\u2019s a tournament or qualifying series coming up, then we assemble players and play. Possibly, sometimes we qualify and say \u2018Oh we are doing good\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work like that. Look at the 2006 World Cup team. Those players were nurtured and developed from U-17, U-20, Meteors, all the way to the Black Stars,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The Black Stars must draw or win against the Central African Republic (CAR) in the final game of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers in September.<\/p>\n READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"Former](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Nii.jpg\")