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CAF president Patrice Motsepe believes Ghana are capable of winning the World Cup at senior level.

Despite successes at youth stage, the West Africans have only qualified for the senior World Cup on three occasions, and their best performance was a quarter-final finish in the 2010 edition in South Africa.

The Caf boss is currently in Ghana on a two-day working visit. Ghana made their World Cup debut in the 2006 finals in Germany, making it out of a group containing eventual champions Italy, the Czech Republic and United States of America to the round of 16 where they bowed out to the then defending champions Brazil.

In 2010, the Black Stars went one step further, reaching the quarter-finals where they lost to Uruguay on penalties.

At a point in that fateful game, Ghana were a penalty kick away from making history to reach the last four of the competition, but Asamoah Gyan wasted the last-gasp opportunity.

Ghana made it to the global showpiece again in 2014 in Brazil, but this time around suffered a first-round exit from a group that included Portugal, Germany and the USA.

“Very soon Ghana will be dominant on the African continent. Ghana must always be at the apex of the sport,” Ghana Football Association president Kurt Okraku said at the same press conference.

In 2018, Ghana missed out on qualification for the World Cup, losing the ticket to Egypt.

The Black Stars, now under new coach Milovan Rajevac, are currently in the running for a possible spot in next year’s World Cup in Qatar. – Goal.com