Well done...Nigerians are getting organized. My country, Ghana, is absolutely useless

Qelvin:
AND BURKINA FASO,CAPE VERDE,AND MALI are far better than Ghana

I doubt it... How many of them have been to the quarter final of the world cup??

Bigo8291:

Naija can take it, as of right now Spain is slowing down

They are still way better than Nigeria at every single position.

solomon111: Why didn't you take female football teams into consideration.?
Even the male competitions you listed is biase.
What of U-23?
Has ghana even reached the quarter final of any U-23 competition let alone the final.
BTW,your U-20 world cup win was not genuine.
Over 99% of your players were overaged.

U20 is hard to cheat in unlike U17

Balotelli is 20
Neymar is 20
Oscar is 20



At 20 a boy is clearly a man

At 16 17 a boy is a boy!



As far as U 23 Ghana was the first African country to get a medal in the 1992 Olympics.


So Ghana walked for you to FLY!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics


As far as the women I don't care!!



Ghana Nigeria Head to Head

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/headtohead/team1=gha/team2=nga/index.html

Qelvin:


Ghana is not a reckoning force in African football anymore,the last time Ghana anything worthwhile was far back in the era of black-and-white...Ivory Coast is the best team in Africa! we have beaten Ghana more in head-to -head meetings!

are you sure

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/headtohead/team1=gha/team2=civ/index.html



Ghana won the U20 world cup in 2009!!

The only African country to ever do it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_FIFA_U-20_World_Cup



Ivory Coast is nothing and a very small team who have accomplished noting. When big teams are talking be quiet and take notes


Ivory Coast produced great players but Ghana has done better in the last few years


Ghana

Ghana 2006 world cup - Round of 16
2008 African cup - Semi Final
2010 African cup - Final
2010 world cup - Quarter Final
2012 African cup Semi Final
2013 African cup Semi Final

Ivory Coast

2006 world cup - Group exit
2008 African cup of nations- Semi Final
2010 African cup- Quarter Final
2010 world cup - Group exit
2012 African cup Final
2013 African cup Quarter Final


SO, tell me who is greater in recent years

You are a nobody on the world stage and have never done anything there and even Africa you are struggling

The only thing which will push Ivory Coast to the top quickly is winning the senior world cup but all your players are old now.

Let me do Nigeria.

Nigeria

2006 world cup: Did not qualify
2008 African cup : Quarter Final
2010 African cup: Semi Final
2010 world cup: Group exit
2012 African cup: Did not Qualify
2013 African cup: Final- Champions



Once again who is the greatest!

Glorious Ghana!!

Ghana Great
Ghana Glorious!!


ONLY Ghana can LEAD the revolution!!!

Only Ghana can lead the way!

I won't walk behind any country but Ghana!! Ghana great, Ghana Glorious!!

Youth tournaments don't matter. Only look at the senior team ;
So I will give them less weight and do more analysis!

Looking at world titles

World cup

Ghana Quarter Final
Cameroon Quarter Final
Senegal Quarter Final

World cup U20
Ghana Gold


Olympics
Nigeria Gold
Cameroon Gold



U17 World cup

Nigeria Gold 3X
Ghana Gold 2X



So in reality it is between Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria...

Thus, one must go to the African cup
Egypt 7 titles
Ghana 4 titles
Cameroon 4 titles
Nigeria 3 titles




The rest of the things are not worth looking at unless you want to include Ghana's 5 West African cup of nations trophies from the 80's !!!

In giving weight to the accomplishments the Senior World cup must have the most weight because it is the highest level!! I will exclude Senegal though because they have never even won the African cup and not won anything since the performed at the world cup....

1 Ghana
2) Cameroon
3) Nigeria
4) Egypt


Egypt concerns me though because they can only perform in Africa!! For a country of 90 million they should have won at least 1 world cup game before!! Even Jamaica has won a world cup game and they are only 2 million!

Getting to the quarter final of the Senior world cup is the biggest honor so automatically

1) Ghana - Since Ghana did it more recently
2) Senegal -2002
3) Cameroon -1990
4) Nigeria- never made it to the quarter final


The rest is debatable.

Egypt has never won a world cup game. They can only perform in Africa where they pick the refs that favor them from the CAF office in Egypt

Red-Light:
Nigeria is the most successful nation in the tournament's
history at world stage, with three titles and three runner ups. Brazil is the second most successful with three
titles and 2 runner

Brazil used kids, Nigeria used old men.

Even this tournament there was some corruption with Nigeria bringing at least 3 over-aged players. Ivory Coast did the same.

I call this the final of the old men. And when old men play old men it is bound to be close. If Nigeria had brought real 17 year olds they would have failed miserably!

Nigeria is paying the price for getting lucky against Ivory Coast in the African cup. Nigeria will not defeat Ivory Cast at any age level for at least 10 years.

The Ivory Coast emerged winners of the African Under-17 Championship in Morocco after defeating Nigeria on penalties on Saturday.

The game ended 1-1 in regulation time and went straight to penalties accordance to FIFA regulation for the under-17s.

The Ivorians won the spot kick by 5-4.

The Nigerians began well with Izu Omego putting his team one goal up after seven minutes.

Ivory Coast struggled to cope with the pacy Nigerians until the 26th minute when Chris Bile Bedia evened the game.

Bedia's goal came against the run of play after poor defending by the Nigerian led to goalkeeper, Adeyinka Adewale gifting the ball after coming off his line.

Within the next six minutes, Ifeanyi Matthew and Chiedbere Nwakali came close to restoring Nigeria's lead before the break.

Three minutes into the second half, Musa Yahaya was played into a scoring opportunity with sight at goal after a superb offensive play but he could only hit the side-net.

On 52 minutes, Bedia was in position to score a second goal for the Ivorians with a close range header but Adewale reacted well.

The tournament's leading scorer, Isaac Success, found himself inside the Ivory Coast's penalty area but shot really wide.

Inside the last 20 minutes, Nigeria thought they had a penalty shout when Success was bundled down in the goal area by four Ivorian defenders.

But with 16 minutes left, goalscorer Omego was sent off by the centre referee, Mahamadou Keita from Mali for an elbow offence.

However, it was Nwakali's miss during the penalty shootout that proved to be Nigeria's undoing as Franck Kessie, Jean Chester Diallo, Bekanty Angban, Aboubacar Keita and Dogbole Niangbo scored all five kicks for the Ivorians to be crowned African champions.


http://www.supersport.com/football/african-youth-championships/news/130427/Ivory_Coast_are_African_U17_champs