“FIFA owes Africa for centuries of exploitation, 13 places for Europe at the World Cup are many”

The colonial past of the African continent gives the right to its teams to demand more representation in the next world championships, the head coach of the Ghana national team is sure

The struggle for all sorts of rights and freedoms, which the European and some other teams participating in the World Cup-22 were so carried away with, may ultimately bring a completely different result than they expected. Because the example turned out to be contagious.

The strong performance of African teams in Qatar shows the need for future championships to be “more inclusive” with more places for the African continent, Ghana head coach Otto Addo said Dec. 1.

Of the five African countries participating in the tournament, Senegal and Morocco qualified for the playoffs. The teams of Ghana, Tunisia and Cameroon also showed good football, and the Cameroonians also retain their chances to reach the 1/8 of the championship under certain scenarios.

Otto Addo began his speech by praising Senegal, the first African team to qualify for the playoffs.

“I am very, very happy that our African brothers have qualified. This is definitely inspiring. I’m happy for Senegal, it’s very, very important,” Addo said at a press conference. Then he moved on to the political part of his speech.

“As you all know, Africa is, yes, an exploited continent. In our history, many things were against us. Therefore, we, first of all, try to play for our people. We play for Ghana, we play for Africa. And I hope that everyone understands that we should be given more than we have. Because sometimes football is the last hope for our people.

It is very difficult for us, our teams. The likelihood that we will go further, be able to reach the playoffs is lower than other continents. Like Europe. They have 13 places in the final part of the championship and their chances of success are much, much higher,” said Addo, after which he added that the five places in the World Championship for the continent, where 55 countries participate in qualification, are unfairly small compared to Europe, where the same number of countries are fighting for 13 tickets to the tournament.

In the previous five World Cups, Africa’s best result was in 2014 when Nigeria and Algeria reached the round of 16.

In the 2002, 2006 and 2010 tournaments, only one African team qualified for the play-offs, while in 2018 all five African qualifiers qualified from the group stage.

I agree with his head coach footballer of the national team of Ghana and the London “Arsenal” Thomas Party.

“The good performance of the African teams in Qatar does not surprise me. However, this World Cup lacks good African players due to limited places. We all know that we have a lot of quality players, but almost all of them can’t get into the tournament because of too tough qualifiers,” said Patry.