New Year message for Stars New Year message for Stars 12 years ago Advertisement The headline sponsors of the senior national team, Gold Fields Ghana has extended best wishes to the Black Stars in the year 2009. In its New Year message to the team and Ghanaians in general, Gold Fields expressed hope and optimism that the Black Stars will repeat the feats of 2005 by securing tickets to both the South Africa 2010 World Cup and African Cup of Nations to be staged in Angola. Ghana faces three crack African sides-Mali, Benin and Sudan-in its attempt to qualify for a second successive World Cup. Gold Fields through its release re-iterated the company’s unflinching support to the team through the second phase of the joint qualifying campaign which starts in March 2009.