Shattered Dreams

Black Princesses' dream of making it to the quarter finals of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup for the first time was short-lived on Tuesday despite a 2-1 win over Finland in Moncton, Canada.

Two second half goals from Sumaila (71) and Cudjoe (86) puts Ghana on equal six points with Korea DPR and Canada but the Princesses lacked the necessary goals to make it to the next phase.

But Coach Bashir Hayford was satisfied with the performance of his team in the competition since this is the first time that Ghana has made such a giant strides at this level. "Our aim was to qualify," he said.

"We won our first match, lost the second one and we won today too, so we got six points out of nine, which is excellent. But due to the numbers we couldn't advance to the next stage."

"Despite that, it has been a very nice tournament for us because two years ago in Japan we could not even manage to score one goal."

"This time we have scored three goals, which shows that we are moving forward. Despite the fact we couldn't qualify, we have a very promising team," he added.