Just 10 short weeks ago, Ghana did not even have a head coach. Now, they have qualified for the knockout stages of a World Cup for the first time since 2010.
The scale of that achievement is difficult to overstate. When Carlos Queiroz was hired to lead the Black Stars this summer, he took over a team reeling from Otto Addo’s reign, having failed to score in four of their six previous matches and conceded 13 goals in the process.