We Need To Fix Our Challenges Before World Cup Qualifiers Resume Next Year – Ghana Legend Mohammed Polo | Football/Soccer

Ghana legend, Mohammed Ahmed “Polo” has urged the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to fix any challenges before Black Stars resume their 2026 World Cup qualifiers next year.

The senior national team failed to secure a spot in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament having finished at the bottom of Group F with three points.

Ghana recorded three defeats and three draws after six games in the recently concluded qualifiers.

However, with the World Cup qualifiers set to resume in March 2025 with games against Chad and Madagascar, Polo cautioned that the challenges that prevented the team from qualifying for the tournament must be addressed before Mundial qualifiers.

“I think recovery is very very important, we have to find out the reason why we could not qualify [for the 2025 AFCON],” Polo, who was a key member of Ghana’s 1975 AFCON winning squad told Pan-Africa Football.

“We have to find out why we didn’t qualify and we have to know why we didn’t qualify and find the solution to it. This involves even the players themselves because we are doubting whether the coach [Otto Addo] would go or stay but it looks like he would stay.

“So there is an opportunity for him to know the players he is going to work with and put down his philosophy and policy for them. This coach has to play an important role for the players if we want to qualify for the World Cup [in 2026].

“He has to put them together and discuss all these things with them so that find we out where the source of the problem is.

“We are all blaming the coach because he is in charge, we are all blaming the Ghana FA because they are in charge of football.

“The Ghana FA must find the reason why this has happened and find solutions to them,” he added.