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Ghanaian Football: The Black Stars
The black stars, is the senior national team. It's controlled by the Ghana Football association. Before gaining independence from England, Ghana/ The Black Stars played as the Gold Coast. Founded in 1957, soon after the country's independence, and was affiliated to both CAF and FIFA the following year. Charles Kumi Gyamfi became coach in 1961, and Ghana won successive African Cup of Nations titles, in 1963 and 1965, and achieved their record win, 13-0 away to Kenya, shortly after the second of these. They also reached the final of the tournament in 1968 and 1970, losing 1-0 on each occasion, to DR Congo and Sudan respectively. Their domination of this tournament earned the country the nickname of "the Brazil of Africa" in the 1960s. The team had no success in FIFA World Cup qualification during this era, and failed to qualify for three successive African Cup of Nations in the 1970s, but qualified for the Olympic Games Football Tournaments, reaching the quarter finals in 1964 and withdrawing on political grounds in 1976 and 1980.