Ace football analyst, Osei Owusu Bempah, has posited that only Mohammed Kudus from the current Black Stars setup could probably have a place in Ghana’s squads at the 2006 & 2010 FIFA World Cup tournaments.

The quality of the current Black Stars players has been questioned by some football fans after the team’s recent poor performances. Ghana lost to Angola in the 2025 AFCON qualifiers and failed to win against Niger on Monday.

The Black Stars under Otto Addo in his second stint have two wins, two defeats and two draws across all competitions, scoring 10 goals and conceding 10 goals in the process.

The results and the performance when stretched back have been uninspiring with the Stars failing to progress beyond the 2022 FIFA World Cup group stage in Qatar and 2023 AFCON in Ivory Coast.

The four-time AFCON winners previously established itself as a giant of African football and one of the most recognized across the globe but the apparent downward spiral is a worry for many Ghanaians, including ace football commentator, Osei Owusu Bempah, who thinks the current generation lacks quality.

In an interview with Luv FM in Kumasi, Mr Bempah opined only Kudus Mohammed from the current crop of players could have contested for slots in the 2006 and 2010 teams.

“Generational factors affect the quality of players that you can deploy at any point in time. For example 1982 and 1978 most of the players who could not even make the Black Stars reserve team could have easily made it to this current squad.

“Just take even the 2006 and 2010 teams, goalkeeper for goalkeeper, take Olele [Richard Kingson] and compare whether there is any of his kind in the current team, John Painstil, take the left back, the two centre backs, Mensah, Vorsah or Jonathan whether we have their likes in the current team.

“So probably apart from Kudus, none of these players could even start for any of the teams in 2006 and 2010. Let’s be honest with ourselves, we don’t have an Asamoah Gyan, a quarter of Asamoah Gyan, we don’t have a Sulley Muntari, we don’t have a Stephen Appiah.

“So some generations will be lucky and coaches also benefit from some of these generational factors. You get to a certain point, there is a very good quality of players and at any point in time, you can just pick any of them but the point is that we don’t have the best, currently we don’t,” he said.