Databank CEO Kojo Addae-Mensah says complacency cost Ghana 2018 World Cup ticket

Ghana Soccer Net

Sat 14th Oct, 2017 10:02

Chief Executive Officer of Databank Kojo Addae-Mensah has attributed Ghana's failure to qualify for Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup to complacency.

"One word for Ghana’s 2018 World Cup exit is complacency. As a country we had become complacent about this whole Word Cup thing, because having made it to the past three World Cup, qualification we though wasn’t a big deal," Kojo Addae-Mensah stated on GHONE.

“Cast your mind back to 2004 where the qualifiers for the 2016 World Cup qualifiers had started, as a nation we were total behind whatever it takes to be at our first World Cup because we a tired of our junior achievement at the World stage."

He continued, “2010 World Cup was the first coming to Africa, it also again speared us on because there was no complacency there could be issues during that time but didn’t want to leave any stone unturned likewise the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

“But the euphoria for qualifying to Russia died down because there wasn’t any zeal especially when many of these players having been to the past two World Cup Cups, ” Addae Mensah concluded.