The Ghana national soccer team popularly labeled as the Ebony Stars features represented the Republic of Ghana in association football considering that the 1950s. Ebony Stars is administered because of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), the governing human anatomy for baseball in Ghana and also the oldest soccer organization in Africa (established in 1920). Prior to 1957, the team played given that Gold Coast.
Although the staff didn't qualify for the senior FIFA World Cup until 2006, they'd qualified for five straight Olympic Games Football Tournaments when the competition ended up being however a complete senior nationwide group competitors. The team has actually claimed the Africa cup Nations four times- in 1963, 1965, 1978, and 1982- and has now already been runner-up 4 times- in 1968, 1970, 1992, and 2010. On 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, they truly became only the third African staff to reach the planet Cup quarter-finals.
After dealing with 2005 unbeaten, Ghana national baseball staff won the FIFA many improved team of the year prize in addition they achieved the second round associated with 2006 FIFA World Cup.
The group qualified for a third-successive appearance in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with James Kwasi Appiah, a former captain of Team, as Head Coach and assisted by Maxwell Konadu, additionally a former player of National Team.