World Champions Archives - Ghana News Express

Morocco became the first African nation to reach a World Cup semi-final when they qualified for the last four at Qatar 2022 Morocco head coach Walid Regragui has told his team they must beat Africa for a second time before they can beat the world. The World Cup 2022 semi-finalists on Saturday recorded a first win in their history against the team ranked number one in the world, Brazil. The Atlas Lions have not, however, lifted the Africa Cup of Nations title since 1976. "I told my players that we cannot be kings of the world before being kings of our continent," Regragui said. The Atlas Lions, who are the first African side to reach the last four of a World Cup, beat Brazil, themselves five time World Cup winners, 2-1 in a friendly on Saturday. It came just a day after M...

Today in history eleven years ago Ghana became World Champions after the Black Satellites won the 2009 FIFA U20 World Cup in Egypt. They won the tournament in the Cairo International Stadium, after defeating Brazil 4-3 on Penalties when the match ended (0-0) after extra time. The first time an African country won the FIFA U-20 World Cup Championship. Prior to the satellites winning the gong, the had won the African Youth Champions, on three occasions in 1995, 1999, 2009 and a two-time Runner-up at the FIFA World Youth Championship in 1993, 2001 and finished third in 2013. Ghana has participated in only six of the past 19 World Cup events starting with their first in Australia 1993 where they lost the World Cup final 1-2 to Brazil in Sydney and in Argentina 2001 where...

Tag: World Champions

Walid Regragui: Morocco must end 47-year Afcon wait before they can be world ‘kings’

Today in History: 11 years ago today Ghana became World Champions