Former Ghana legend and two-time AFCON winner Osei Kofi has charged the current crop of Black Star players to end the country's 39-years AFCON title drought.
The Black Stars won their fourth AFCON title in 1982 and have come close in winning the title on two occasions in the last decade in 2010 Angola and 2015 Equitorial Guinea.
According to Osei Kofi, the current crop of players have received all the support to win the trophy juxtaposing with their generation who had won and government yet to fulfil its promise to them.
"and this does not augur well for the present generation of players who are being given all they demand before putting on the national jersey.", he told Times Sports.
"We did not have the opportunity that they are having today. We were promised a complete house in 1978, by the Colonel Kutu Acheampong regime who called his Special Assistant Lt Col Simpe Asante and myself to the castle and told us that we should confide with the Black Stars players that if they win the historic third AFCON trophy that year, each player would get an estate each at Dansoman - which was being built at that time."
After winning the trophy and the Acheampong government overthrown in July, the Lt-General Fred Akuffo who took over did not honour the promise to the team after winning the trophy.
"Lt-General Fred Akuffo, later told us that he was not the one that promised us, and till date, we have heard nothing about that promise."
"We were saddened that a Head of State made a promised on behalf of the state and till date, that promise is still hanging."
For him, sometimes he feels the law of Karma is at work, and the present generation of the Black Stars is taking a cue from the failed promise to his generation.
"The present players have learnt well from what was done to us in the past; so today they demand money before playing and I support them wholeheartedly.
"Indeed, they should even take more. However, they should remember that they owe the public. We were not paid but we produced the trophies. They are being paid huge appearance fees and bonuses, so they need to satisfy the public by winning the trophy.", he added.