Gospel Artiste Joseph Matthew Exonerated Over Black Stars’ Loss_ghnation.net
The World Cup has returned, and the odds of an African team, specifically Team Ghana, winning this year’s tournament in Qatar are higher than ever.
Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, and Cameroon are the nations representing Africa at this year’s World Cup.
It’s extremely disheartening that despite all the legendary footballers like Ghana’s Abedi Pele, Liberia’s current President George Opong-Weah, the Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba, and Samuel Eto’o from Cameroon who are Africans, the continent is yet to win the most prestigious football tournament in the world.
The highest stage an African country has ever gotten to is the quarterfinals. The first African country to achieve such a feat was Senegal in 2002, followed by Ghana at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
At the 2010 World Cup, which was the first to be staged in Africa, Ghana became the closest African team that was inches away from making history as the first to qualify for the semi-finals.
The Black Stars reached the last-eight stage in what was just their second World Cup campaign and were on the verge of becoming the first African team to reach a World Cup semi-final, but the dream was short-lived when Uruguay trashed them in a penalty shootout.
However, the question that football enthusiasts and connoisseurs keep asking is, “Can an African team ever win the World Cup?” Even if it’s a “when will that happen?”
Once upon a time, a footballer, UK-based Ghanaian Afro-gospel musician Joseph Matthew, predicted that an African team would undoubtedly win the World Cup if properly prepared.
Speaking to hotfmghana.com, the “Blessed” Hitmaker outlined what most African teams, specifically Ghana’s team, the “Black Stars,” must do in order to win the Cup. He said,
“Why not! An African team can win… The Ghana Black Stars can surely win… But in Africa, we don’t like to take strides in long-term planning.
A coach would be hired, then fired just before the World Cup, and another coach would take over with a different philosophy and different players…”We lack sustainability,” he added.
Another horrifying contrivance impeding our chances of winning the World Cup, according to the award-winning Afro-gospel musician, is the interference of our football governing bodies and the process of selecting players.
The “Nyame Ye” crooner advised that,
“The Ghana Football Association must adopt a long-term strategy that would propel the Black Stars to win their first World Cup.”
In this, he asserted that grooming players from the get-go till they grow into the national team is ideal for our success.
Ever since Joseph Matthew surfaced in the Ghanaian gospel music scene in 2019, he has released impressively produced songs such as “Nyame Ye,” “My Story,” “The Name,” and “Blessed.”
“Blessed,” which was released in May this year, has been heavily tipped by entertainment pundits to win the “Record of the Year” award at the 2023 Ghana Music Awards.
From below, get a sense of Joseph Matthew’s “Blessed.”
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