Head coach of the Ghana Black Queens, Kim Lars Bjorkegren, has confessed that his team was affected by its decision to skip two training sessions in the lead up to its game against Egypt.
Beating Egypt 7-0 on aggregate (the first leg had Ghana register a 3-0 win in Cairo) qualified Ghana to next year’s AFCON which commences on March 17.
Ghana beat Egypt 4-0 at the Accra Sports Stadium in the second leg of the final round of qualifiers to the 2026 CAF Women’s AFCON but in the lead up to the game, the team boycotted two training sessions over unpaid bonuses.
However, a resolution was reached between the team and the Ministry of Sports and Recreation and Kim Bjorkegren believes the rocky preparation affected the team’s performance particularly in the first half that ended goalless.
“If you haven’t done anything for two, three days, of course it affects you. It would be a lie otherwise and the girls know it as well but I felt in the second half…we had like a warm up in the first 45 minutes okay so now we push forward, we can do better than what we did in the first half. That’s what we talked about and they did it” Bjorkegren said.
Ghana take on reigning European champions England in a friendly on December 2.
