Ghana coach Otto Addo stated Sunday the possibilities of an African group reaching the latter levels of the World Cup will stay restricted till the continent is awarded extra locations on the event.
No African facet has ever gone past the quarter-finals at a World Cup, though Ghana had been a missed penalty away from reaching the final 4 at South Africa in 2010.
Addo, talking on the eve of his group’s Group H match towards South Korea, stated Africa, with 54 groups, deserved extra slots.
“There was by no means a degree the place everyone had an equal likelihood at first. By no means in FIFA historical past,” Addo stated in Doha.
“It’s extremely, very troublesome if in case you have 5 slots to get far. You probably have 12 or 14 slots — I do not know what number of Europe get — the chance {that a} group will get additional is way, a lot increased.”
13 of the 32 nations current in Qatar come from Europe. Asia has six representatives, with South America and the CONCACAF area sending 4 every.
Senegal are the one African facet to have received a match on the Qatar World Cup. Not one of the 5 African groups who took half 4 years in the past in Russia made it out the group stage.
“All people nonetheless has probabilities, some extra, some much less, however I am hoping and praying no less than one or two (African) groups can advance to the following stage,” stated Addo, who performed for Ghana once they made the final 16 on their World Cup debut in 2006.
The Black Stars play South Korea of their second match on Monday after shedding their opening sport 3-2 to Portugal.
Addo had criticised the efficiency of American referee Ismail Elfath, insisting the penalty Portugal had been awarded for a problem on Cristiano Ronaldo was a “present”.
However he stated he had had time to mirror on the defeat.
“I can use this stage to apologise if I used to be a bit of impolite, I used to be very emotional after the match,” stated Addo.
“It is prior to now. It is over, you possibly can’t change it. All people on the pitch is a human, everyone makes errors. I do errors too.
“I used to be stunned the VAR did not come however there’s nothing we will do. The day after the match we lower it off and we targeting South Korea.”
