Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kurt Okraku has revealed that the country’s 20 national football teams have been sharing a single bus purchased in 2008, but the vehicle is now out of service.

Okraku made the revelation when he appeared before Parliament’s Select Committee on Youth and Sports on Wednesday, November 4, where he outlined some of the logistical challenges confronting Ghanaian football.

According to the GFA president, the bus has been used by all the country’s national teams, including the senior men’s Black Stars, the Black Queens and the other 18 national sides.

However, the vehicle has now broken down, forcing the football association to hire buses to transport its teams.

Okraku disclosed that the GFA had to rent a bus during the most recent international window because its only available vehicle was no longer operational.

“Your Black Stars, your Black Queens, and the 18 other national teams that we do have, have access to one bus that was purchased by the FA in the year 2008. Twenty national teams using one bus. Now the bus is broken, so during the last international window the FA had to rent a bus,” he said.

The GFA president described the situation as one of the fundamental challenges affecting the development of football in Ghana, arguing that sustained success requires adequate investment in infrastructure, equipment and logistical support.

He believes the lack of basic resources has contributed to Ghana’s inability to maintain consistent success across different generations of national teams.

Okraku stressed that building a sustainable football ecosystem would require addressing these underlying challenges rather than focusing solely on results on the pitch.

“So if we want to create a sustained football ecosystem, these are the fundamentals. These are the reasons why we’ve not had sustained and continuous victorious stories over generations. These are the hard truths,” he added.