Ghana will be without midfielder Thomas Partey for its World Cup opener on Wednesday, June 17 against Panama. The match will take place at BMO Field in Toronto, and Partey saw his application for a Canadian visa denied.

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That it took Ghana until 2006 to qualify for the World Cup, despite being African football’s dominant team of the 1960s, 70s and the early 80s, winning the Africa Cup of Nations four times during this period,