Appiah: Anything is still possible

• Ghana have graced a final 3 World Cups (2006, 2010 and 2014)
• New manager Appiah says “anyone in a organisation can still qualify”.

There is a conspirator of African countries that have been ever-present during a FIFA World Cup™ in new years: Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Cameroon and Algeria have all seemed during both of a final dual editions of a tellurian extravaganza. It will be a opposite story subsequent time round, though, with Algeria, Cameroon and Nigeria carrying been drawn in a same subordinate group, definition that usually one of them will make it to Russia 2018. On tip of that, Ghana have stumbled in their territory early on, enabling Egypt to explain stick position.

This indolent start, joined with a Black Stars’ 2017 CAF Africa Cup of Nations disappointment, stirred a Ghana Football Association to make a change in a dugout, drafting in James Kwesi Appiah as a new coach. ‘New’ in a demeanour of vocalization during least. The appointment indeed took Appiah behind to rarely informed surroundings: he formerly served as Milovan Rajevac’s partner around a Serbian’s spell in charge, that enclosed a run to a quarter-finals during South Africa 2010, before holding a tip pursuit himself and running his homeland to Brazil 2014 around an fatiguing play-off attainment over a Pharaohs.

Appiah knows full good that repeating a attainment this time spin will be a tough task, revelation as most to FIFA.com in an disdainful interview. “We’re sitting on one point, while Egypt have got six,” he said. “However, we’re going to try to win a arriving matches and leapfrog them.”

A possibility to spin a corner
Ghana’s subsequent assignment consists of a integrate of games in tighten period opposite Congo, who are propping adult a list after dual matchdays. This, therefore, represents a golden event for Appiah’s organisation to make adult belligerent on Egypt, who themselves face a double header opposite second-placed Uganda, nonetheless a manager was austere that a groundwork boys will infer no pushover: “Congo have a good team. Nobody in this organisation can be taken lightly; on a contrary, we have to proceed any compare in a same manner, with a same desire.”

Nevertheless, an upbeat Appiah insisted that Russia stays good within strech for his side: “Every organisation has played dual matches, so we’ve got 4 games left any and 12 points to play for. Anything is still possible, so prolonged as we keep operative tough and we perform well. We’ll have to see what happens, though we consider anyone in a organisation can still qualify.”

Aiming for swell on all fronts
Despite Ghana’s checkered fortunes of late, both in World Cup subordinate and during a Africa Cup of Nations, Appiah is assured that his charges have what it takes to arise to a hurdles forward of them: “I’m confident with a patrol during my disposal. we only wish to assistance them contest improved in a residue of a subordinate debate and beyond. We have some immature players in a organisation and we’ve got to safeguard they flog on in a future.”

What goals, then, has a 57-year-old set for Russia 2018 and Cameroon 2019? “Ghana were knocked out in a semi-finals of a 2017 AFCON, though it was a equitable showing. We’ve got to try to build on that, labour a diversion and move by new players. With courtesy to a subsequent edition, that is dual years away, for starters we’re only going to try to validate and afterwards we’ll take it from there.”

Ghana’s remaining fixtures on a highway to Russia 2018:
1 September: Ghana-Congo
5 September: Congo-Ghana
2 October: Uganda-Ghana
6 November: Ghana-Egypt

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2017/m=8/news=appiah-anything-is-still-possible-2904840.html