They might have failed to win the cup, again, but the Black Stars players would be smiling all the way to the bank.
Ghana painfully lost the AFCON finals on penalties to Cote d’Ivoire, an unfortunate repetition of the 1992 final. They received a heroes’ welcome this time when they returned, a far cry from the apathy and outright disappointment that followed the events at Brazil 2014.
This is because we can all agree they played their hearts out at this tournament, and despite losing there are few who would disagree they were the better side over the course of the three weeks in Equatorial Guinea; it certainly was not Cote d’Ivoire who swept all the individual awards after the competition.