GFA needs to sit down and analyse why Black Stars to qualify for 2025 AFCON - Kwesi Appiah

Former Ghana coach, Kwesi Appiah has urged the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to sit down and critically analyse why the Black Stars failed for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).

Ghana for the first time in 20 yers failed to secure a ticket for the continent's most prestigious tournament after finishing at the bottom of Group F with just three points after six games.

Following the team's horrendous performances during the qualifiers, Appiah, who also serves as a member of the GFA's Executive Committee believes it is time for the FA to re-examine football in Ghana.

"It's really unfortunate because everybody thought Ghana will have qualified," Appiah, who doubles as head coach of Sudan told BBC Africa.

"In 2014, I was taking Ghana to the World Cup in Brazil, and I made a statement that football is coming of age.

"The whole FA needs to sit down and analyse and check what is really going on."

"I was an executive member of the Ghana FA and while Ghana was involved with our group, I was told to step aside because of a conflict of interest, and I did.

"Once you are a professional, you look at where you're working. If Ghana is not rising up to the occasion, there's nothing I can do.

"I need to be 100% professional and make sure the country I'm coaching qualify [for] either the Afcon or the World Cup."

Appiah also has some sympathy for current Ghana head coach Otto Addo.

"Ghana is like England. If England does not qualify for Europe or the World Cup, it's a big, big issue," he said.

"Once you take that job, you need to add that pressure on top of it. Ghana not going to Afcon is a big, big, big deal."

Kwesi Appiah is famously remembered for qualifying for the Black Stars for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.