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Ghana, which rang Korean soccer three years ago, won a ticket to North Korea, China and the U.S.
Ghana won 1-0 in the final Group I match of the 2026 North-China World Cup Africa qualifying round against Comoros at Accra Sports Stadium in Accra, Ghana on the 13th (Korea time). Ghana, which had eight wins, one draw and one loss in 10 matches, beat second-place Madagascar (19 points) to advance to the finals as No. 1 in the group. Ghana has made it to the finals for the second time in a row following the 2022 Qatar Games.
It is his fifth career advance to the World Cup. Ghana, an African powerhouse, has the best record of the quarterfinals recorded at the 2010 South African Games. At that time, the African team was in front of the first semifinal, but it was unfortunately frustrated due to the overlapping incident of Uruguay's main gun Luis Suarez's 'Hand of God'. At the Qatar tournament, he was eliminated from the group stage. Ghana, which was in the same group with South Korea at the time, won 3-2 in the second game with a multi-goal by Mohamed Kudus (Tottenham). South Korea's Cho Kyu-sung (Mit Willan) scored the first multi-goal in the history of Korean soccer and chased down, but unfortunately lost. However, in the final match, South Korea won 2-1 against Portugal, while Ghana lost 0-2 to Uruguay, advancing to the round of 16.
The African qualifying round, which has 9.5 tickets to the finals, will be divided into nine groups and the finals will be held at the top of each group. Among the second-place teams, the top four teams will play a playoff (PO) and decide which team will play in the intercontinental PO.
Ghana, which could have confirmed its advance to the finals just by drawing, scored the winning goal in the second minute of the second half when Kudus pushed a cross from Thomas Partey (Villarreal). Ghana defended the goal well and decided to advance to the finals. He became the fifth African country to go to the World Cup after Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria.
Ghana, which has confirmed its advance to the World Cup finals, is expected to play warm-up matches against South Korea and Japan next month. Ghanaian media Gana Soccernet reported earlier that `We are scheduled to play against South Korea in Seoul on November 17.' Ghana played a warm-up match against South Korea ahead of two previous World Cups. Ahead of the 2006 German competition, the team held warm-up matches in Seoul and the U.S. just before the 2014 Brazil competition. The result was a 1-3 and 0-4 defeat for South Korea. Coincidentally, all of South Korea failed to advance to the round of 16. Korea is inferior to the previous record with three wins and four losses.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
