Dark Stars captain Jordan Ayew has wired the urgency of securing Ghana’s put on the 2026 FIFA World Cup, significantly after the group failed to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Worldwide locations (AFCON).
Ghana’s absence from the upcoming continental showpiece has assign added tension on Otto Addo’s side to fabricate in the World Cup qualifiers.
“There’s tension playing for Ghana,” Ayew admitted in an interview with BBC Sport Africa. “We can’t live folks from criticismâit’s half of the game. When the outcomes are no longer there, the manager and the gamers rep the backlash.”
The Leicester City forward has been instrumental in Ghana’s qualification advertising and marketing campaign, scoring four dreams to this level. His contributions consist of a hat-trick in opposition to the Central African Republic in Kumasi last June, making him Ghana’s top scorer in the qualifiers. Very best Egypt’s Mohamed Salah and Trezeguet maintain scored more, with five dreams every after four rounds.
Ayew takes over the captaincy from his brother André Ayew, who used to be no longer neatly-known of the squad for this month’s qualifiers in opposition to Chad and Madagascar.
The 33-300 and sixty five days-veteran acknowledged that main Ghana comes with foremost duties nonetheless believes the group has the usual to reach the World Cup.
“With the usual we’ve, we’ve to qualify for the World Cup,” he stated. “With any luck, from these two games, we can yelp a factual image of ourselves and flip things spherical.”
Ghana currently sits on 9 points in Neighborhood I after four games and are third in the team. The Dark Stars will host Chad in Kumasi on Friday sooner than travelling to Madagascar for their 2d fixture.
With key gamers like Thomas Partey, Mohammed Kudus, and Antoine Semenyo in the squad, Ayew is confident that Ghana can stable relief-to-relief wins to improve their qualification hopes.
