Carlos Queiroz was officially presented this Thursday as Ghana’s new coach and is preparing to be in the final stages for the fifth time of the World Cup.
In the presentation, the Portuguese coach assured that he has high expectations and says he felt the “soul of Black Star”, revealing that this is the “biggest challenge” of his career.
Asked about the possibility of reaching the quarter-finals of the World Cup, equaling the team’s best performance in the competition, the Portuguese coach said that a “great gentleman” taught him that “there is no such thing as failure”but rather the “opportunity to be better”.
“Mandela told me one day: Carlos, we never lose; we either win or we learn. That’s why I’m not afraid of anything. If we work and believe, we’ll be prepared”, he concluded.
The two-time world junior champion coach in 1989 and 1991 had stints with the United Arab Emirates teams in 1998, and more recently Colombia (2019-2020), Egypt (2021-2022), Qatar (2023) and Oman (2025-2026).
Or Gana is not Group L, with England, Croatia and Panama.
At 73 years old, will be in the final stages of the main international selection competition for the fifth timeafter 2010, with Portugal, and 2014, 2018 and 2022, all with Iran, and will equal the record for consecutive appearances held by Serbian Bora Milutinovic, with the Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira has a global maximum of six participations, but they were not consecutive.
