Thiery Regenass, FIFA Director of Member Associations and Development, has described the Ghana-Germany second Group G match at the last World Cup in Brazil as high quality football.
Regenass, leading the FIFA/CAF conference for national coaches and technical directors for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil in Cairo, Egypt said that “Ghana-Germany game was a display of high level football.”
Regenass, who is one of FIFA’s representatives at the seminar aimed at discussing technical details for member countries at the World Cup, said “Ghana can be so proud of their team. They were also very close to reaching the next round”.
The Black Stars finished last in Group G following an embarrassing campaign at the competition they have previously excelled.
The team’s only point came from an impressive 2-2 draw with the eventual winners of the tournament, Germany.
Rating Africa’s performance at the competition for the best 32 teams in the world, Regenass stated: “Two teams from Africa at the second round were good. Algeria were a surprise and Nigeria did well too.
“Cote d’Ivoire were close to reaching the next stage. Nigeria too did well. The general performance level of Africa was extraordinarily high.”, he added.
Technical Director of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Francis Oti Akenteng, who was expected to attend with former coach, Kwasi Appiah who failed to show up, was the only Ghanaian representative at the seminar.
