Former national team defender, Sammy Kuffour is adamant the concentration on the Black Stars by Ghanaian football chiefs is the bane of the lack of success for the country’s efforts in the beautiful game.

Four time Africa Champions, also world U-20 champions in 2009 not to forget two U-17 world titles, Ghana continue to struggle to win silverware at senior level now spanning a staggering three decades and over.

Speaking on the Soccer Africa programme on Super Sport’s feature on two brilliant football academies in Ghana, Right to Dream and Gomoa Fetteh Feyenoord, Kuffour who played for Ghana at U-17 (wining the 1991 FIFA Junior Cup), U-20, U-23 and senior level, hailed the two projects and bemoaned the general lack of attention for grassroots football.

“So as Ghana football is concerned, everything depends on the youth. If you don’t develop the youth, then you can’t move forward because you can get good players for the Black Stars, that’s why we struggling. It’s the youth who are the future but nobody is talking about the youth,” Kuffour said.

The former Bayern Munich superstar continued: “The Black Starlets that won the U-17 World Cup in 1991, we are not paying any attention to them. Even the Satellites who won the U-20 World Cup just four years ago, nobody is talking about them”, Kuffour added.

“Concentration on the Black Stars is killing our football and I advice that we should go back to our roots and develop football from the colts level so we can produce a better Michael Essien, a better Abedi Pele and of course a better Tony Yeboah for our country,” he added.