The Minister for Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams, has disclosed that new Ghana head coach Carlos Queiroz has been tasked to guide the national team to the semi-finals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Queiroz was appointed head coach of the Black Stars earlier this month and officially unveiled by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) last week.
According to Kofi Adams, the goal set for the new coach is to ensure Ghana performs better at this year’s World Cup than it did at the 2010 World Cup, when the Black Stars reached the quarter-finals.
“We have given the coach a good target to do better in the World Cup than we did in 2010. It was the same target given to Otto Addo,” the Sports Minister told Asempa FM in an interview.
Kofi Adams added, “The team should be ranked among the top five in Africa, and we should win the AFCON, which we did not qualify for. At the moment, we are not even among the best in Africa.
“We want to do better in the World Cup, and that is by getting into the semi-finals of the World Cup. Even better, we want to win the World Cup, and that is the ultimate aim.”
The Black Stars will step up preparations for the World Cup in May when Carlos Queiroz names his squad for friendlies against Mexico and Wales.
The two games will help the team to finalise preparations before heading into the tournament, where the Black Stars will face Panama, Croatia, and England in Group L.
