Ghana will be in Qatar for their fourth World Cup participation after failing to make it to the last edition in Russia.
The Black Stars of Ghana are in a group with Portugal, Uruguay, and South Korea, the team will play its group stage matches against the Portuguese on November 24 and November 28, play the South Koreans, and play its last group stage game against the Uruguayans on December 2, 2022.
Their first game will be at Stadium 974 in Doha, in their second game, Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan will host the Black Stars, and their last group game will be at Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah. If they make it out of the group stage, they will be able to play at any of the eight sites in Qatar that will hold sixty-four World Cup games.
In Ghana’s group, the Black Stars of Ghana are the country that has appeared in the competition the least number of times, which is four. Uruguay, the highest to appear, has been at the World Cup fourteen times. South Korea has appeared eleven times, followed by Portugal on their eighth occasion.
The statistics presented at one point led the Ghana Football Association to plan a friendly match in order to hone the team ahead of the World Cup.
The crafty editors of www.atspo.com question Ghanaians if the countries that would play the Black Stars in a friendly encounter can help the team get better before they compete in their group games in Qatar.
The Ghana Football Association has officially announced that the Black Stars will meet Brazil in their first friendly on September 23, 2022. Then, on November 27, they will face Nicaragua, and on November 17, 2022, they will finally face Switzerland.
In their friendly games, the Black Stars will be facing opponents since the teams in the group for the World Cup are found on the same continent, so in a way, it implies it is a good schedule to engage in a friendly with them before the World Cup.
A friendly against Brazil will give you a clue to how Uruguay deploy their game, and a test against Switzerland will give you an insight into how Portugal will set up.