In less than Eighteen (18) days, the 33rd edition of the African Cup of Nations will commence in Cameroon.
Initially, the tournament was planned for 2021 but it was rescheduled for January 9th to February 6th.
The Black Stars of Ghana are expected to depart Ghana for Qatar on December 22nd, 2021 for preparations ahead of the tournament as he has named his 30-man provisional squad.
Milovan led the Black Stars to the World Cup 2010 where they nearly made it to the limelight but the scintillating performance was halted by Uruguay in the quarter-finals.
When asked about how he managed to deploy a good team during the 2010 World Cup and how to make sure the team returns with the 40years awaiting trophy, he said “2010 was great, we had a beautiful recollection of that event. Many didn’t believe in our team and that time we were very close to winning that cup, we couldn’t count on some players and our group was great and a group of players, and we were fighting throughout the competition and we were very close at that time. I still believe that we were a better team in that final, were a little bit unlucky at the end.
“Now the situation is almost the same of course if you looking at FIFA ranking we are not in the right position than before but that doesn’t mean anything necessarily since many teams want to win this cup and many have written to think they can win this cup and there’s no difference for us. We know how much this is important and how if we do this the whole country will be happy.
“We can only promise that were are going to do our best to go match by match because for us every next match is the most important in a career in life so of au is of the challenge and we are going to do our best, how to achieve this goal and make everybody happy”. He concluded.
Source: ghanasportspage.com