The national U-20 women’s soccer team has for the seventh time failed to progress from the group stage of a World Cup.
The Black Princesses on Sunday lost the final best third-placed slot to Argentina, who beat Costa Rica 1-0 before Ghana’s kickoff in their final group game against New Zealand.
The Princesses had lost their opening two games, first to Austria by 2-1 and then 4-1 to Japan.
Therefore, the final group match became a dead rubber for Yusif Basigi’s girls.
After a goalless first half at the Estadio Pascual Guerrero in Cali, the Ghanaians came into the concluding half of the game with determination to bow out respectably.
Salamatu Abdulai opened the scoring after nearly an hour of play.
She scored a second after the Oceanians cancelled her first.
Tracy Twum scored a third goal for the Ghanaians in injury time to end a tournament at which Basigi failed to meet his target.
