Ghana coach Ratomir Dujkovic has predicted that his team will be the best in Africa in the coming years.

Dujkovic feels the Black Stars, who lost 1-0 to Nigeria on Monday, will benefit from huge investment in development by Fifa.

"I believe that Ghana will be the strongest (team) in Africa in the coming years," Dujkovic.

"We will now receive big money from sponsors, Fifa etc, and that will give us the facilities to do better work."

Dujkovic was speaking on Tuesday, the day after his team's defeat in their opening match at the African Cup of Nations.

And he added that the advantages currently held by teams from the north and south of Africa will soon be wiped out - leading to an increase in talent from African nations in the east and west of the continent.

"In Africa, apart from the north and south which are like Europe, the rest of the countries don't have the facilities for football," added The Serbian coach, whose team will be at the World Cup for the first time this summer.

"And for that reason, I am very pleased that Fifa is putting money in to develop football in Africa.

"They have the talent, and with the money, they will become much better than they are now.

"That will also be good for European clubs because players will come from Africa to play in Europe."

"They will be expensive. Not like now. Now they are very cheap."

But Dujkovic said that there has to be a huge improvement in youth development in Ghana.

"The problem with Ghana is that they don't have youth competitions, they have only a few academies and they don't have Under-20 or Under-17 leagues," he said.

"They have to start on that, they have to build those competitions."