Good Luck To Ghana's Black Stars In Brazil

Most Ghanaians dream of seeing their nation's national soccer team, the Black Stars, returning home from the 2014 Federation of International Football Associations' (FIFA) World Cup soccer tournament currently underway in Brazil, with the soccer world's ultimate trophy, the FIFA World Cup.

 Naturally, there are spoilsport  soccer  pundits who will  say that the Black Stars have their work cut out for them - and that winning the FIFA  World Cup will be an impossible task for the team.

However, one lives in hope - and with a team full of world-class players, one's prayer is that the Black Stars will, at the very least, go further than they did at the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa.

 On a good day, the Black Stars are capable of matching any of the teams that qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament in Brazil. What they need is mental strength and the determination to win - and they have both in abundance, luckily.

If they perform well in Brazil,  the Black Stars will enhance Ghana's image globally - and perhaps attract yet more Africa-bound overseas tourists,  and long-term international investors interested in emerging markets, to Ghana.

Above all, it will cheer up a  hard-up and mostly-morose populace,  and perhaps also bring a much-polarised society together again.

(Alas, our homeland Ghana has been divided by ruthless and self-seeking politicians -  power-hungry and power-drunk party-hardliners from across the spectrum: who only think of party advantage, and increasing their personal net worth, at Mother Ghana's expense. But I digress.)

Patriotic citizens up and down our country, and nationalistic Ghanaians across the globe, wish the Black Stars the very best of luck,  in the team's opening match today, against the national soccer team of the United States of America, the Stars and Stripes. May all their efforts in Brazil be crowned with glory - and if Providence so wishes, we do hope they will return home to Ghana,  with the FIFA World Cup. Amen.