Former Black Stars head coach C.Ok Akonnor has urged the Ghana Soccer Affiliation to implement a structural overhaul of the nationwide groups to reverse the nation’s declining soccer fortunes.Akonnors remarks come following the Ghana’s failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) for the primary time in twenty years.Talking on Pleasure FM on Monday, the previous Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak coach, who coached Ghana from 2019 to 2021, emphasised the necessity for a complete reset, beginning with youth improvement.”We have to have a plan that goes past profitability. We have to take a look at our youth soccer, you already know. If we do not do it now, we’re already late. Now we have to take a look at our Underneath 17, Underneath 20, Underneath 20 the native Black Stars (the Black Stars B), after which the senior nationwide workforce.”If we do not begin to actually strategize tips on how to go about it, we’ll proceed to speak about it – the decline of Ghana soccer, like the way in which we’re speaking now. The place did the Asamoah Gyans, the Stephen Appiahs, and Laryea Kingstons the most effective technology we’ve got had (come from)?”’From the Underneath 17. You’d be stunned that Laryea Kingston and Godwin Attram knew one another and had been taking part in collectively since (they have been) ten years (previous). So there was some development and cohesion so when the nation wanted them, they delivered.”The Black Stars will wrap up their AFCON qualifying collection on Monday towards Niger on the Accra Sports activities Stadium in a dead-rubber sport.