Ghana

It is the Ghana National Football Team is the representative of Ghana in international football for men and has been doing this in the past since 1950. The team comprises twenty players that include technicians. The team is referred to as the Black Stars in honor of their nickname, the Black Star of Africa in the flag of Ghana. It is run by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) the governing body of soccer in Ghana and is the oldest club in Africa (founded around 1920). Before 1957, Ghana Football Association was known under the name of Gold Coast. They are a part in the two organizations, FIFA as well as CAF.

While the team was not able to participate in an invitation to the Senior FIFA World Cup for the first time in 2006, they qualified for four Olympic Football Tournaments at a time when the qualifiers were still a full national championship for senior African teams. Their greatest accomplishment was a third place finish in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Ghana has won at least the Africa Cup of Nations four times (in 1963 in 1963, 1965, 1978 as well as 1982) and finished runners-up five times (in 1968 1990, 1970, 1992 in 2010, and in the year 2015). After a year of unbeaten play, the Ghana national football team was awarded the FIFA World Cup Best Mover in the of the Year Award and advanced to the finals of the 2006. FIFA World Cup. In the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, they became only the third African team to make it to the World Cup quarter-finals, and the 2014 World Cup was the third time in succession at World Cup.