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Head coach of Ghana’s U20 Women’s National team, Ben Fokuo reacts to the Black Princesses early exit out of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup following a 4-1 defeat to the Netherlands in their final group D match on Wednesday night.
The Black Princesses were hoping to make it out of the group after losing 3-0 to USA in their first game and 2-0 to Japan in the second game .
The Black Princesses third in the tournament sent them parking for the sixth straight time in history.
Speaking after their defeat, head coach Ben Fokuo says the team will regroup, work hard and put measures in place to compete in the next edition.
“This is the sixth time we have not been able to qualify from the group stage and it is very worrying’’.
“When we were coming to this competition for the sixth time, we decided to make sure that we qualify from the group stage for the first time and later progress from the quarter final but it is unfortunate we lost all three matches and are out of the competition”-he explained.
“We did our preparations and worked hard towards the competition but things didn’t go as planned. We will work hard and try again in the next edition and hopefully, the team will make it past the group stage for the first time’’ he added.
Consecutive appearance at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. The Black Princesses made their first appearance in 2010 in Germany, and have gone ahead to participate in the subsequent five tournaments (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018).
