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Ghana (GHA)

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Founded	1957
Affiliated	1958
WC participations	None
WC honours	None
Continental Titles	African Cup of Nations (1963, 1965, 1978, 1982), CSSA Nations Cup (1982-1984, 1986, 1987)
Facts Four-time African Cup of Nations winners, Ghana have yet to claim a place at the finals of a FIFA World Cup™ tournament despite nine attempts to date. On their debut in the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, they were narrowly knocked out by Morocco and in subsequent years found victory impossible to come by. The qualification group for the 2002 FIFA World Cup proved a nigh™are for the Ghanaians -- the team ended up in fourth place behind Nigeria, Liberia and Sudan. Ghana's hopes of reaching the first Asian finals were effectively ended by a 3-1 defeat at home to Liberia and an unconvincing draw against Sierra Leone. Ghana saw off Somalia in the preliminary qualifiers for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Players:

1 ADJEI Sammy (GK)
2 SARPEI Hans
3 GYAN Asamoah
4 KUFFOUR Samuel
5 MENSAH John
6 PAPPOE Emmanuel
7 SHILLA Illiasu
8 ESSIEN Michael
9 BOATENG Derek
10 APPIAH Stephen
11 MUNTARI Sulley
12 TACHIE-MENSAH Alex
13 MOHAMED Habib
14 AMOAH Matthew
15 PANTSIL John
16 OWU George (GK)
17 QUAYE Daniel
18 ADDO Eric
19 PIMPONG Razak
20 ADDO Otto
21 AHMED Issah
22 KINGSTON Richard (GK)
23 DRAMANI Haminu

General Information

FIFA Trigramme: GHA
Country: Ghana
Country (official name): Republic of Ghana
Continent: Africa
Capital: Accra
Major cities: Kumasi, Tamale, Tema, Secondi-Takoradi, Cape Coast, Koforidua, Sunyani, Ho
Currency: Cedi
Official languages: English
Motto: Freedom and justice.

Population (in millions): 20.47
GDP per inhabitant (in US dollars): 2,100
Density (inhabitants per km2): 85.47
Average age (in years): 19.8
Life expectancy at birth (in years): 56.53

Internet code: .gh
Number of internet users: 200,000 (2002)



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