In the end Nora Häuptle could not hold back her tears. They were tears of joy. Even for a woman who has played and managed at the highest level, what she had just achieved with Ghana had to be filed under her greatest achievements.
The Black Queens, as Ghana’s women’s national team are known, had just lost 1-0 in Namibia but the result had very little significance because their 3-1 victory in the first leg four days before meant they had qualified for the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) – their first major tournament in six years.
