Ghana Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi has backed calls for Africa to be given more qualifying slots at the World Cup than the current five places.
Africa has five places in the 32-team World Cup, compared to 13 from Europe, up to five from Asia and up to five from South America.
But Nyantakyi added that Ghana's run to the quarterfinals of the last World Cup has ''enhanced the reputation of African teams'' after throwing his support behind Cameroonian Football Federation president, Mohammed Iya's demand for an increase in qualifying slots.
"Based on the overall performances of African teams in recent years in many competitions, Africa really deserves more," Nyantakyi said.
"In the 2006 World Cup an African team was the only one from Asia, Africa, and North and Central America to make it to the second round. Only Ghana did that.
"Many European teams continually fail to get beyond the first phase of the competition. Africa has 52 countries, Europe has 53 countries and Europe normally has 14 to 16 teams in the finals and we should get at least half of that number," he added.
The Black Stars came close to a semi-final place at the 2010 World Cup but lost their quarter final clash on penalties.
"I think we should have about eight teams by now because our teams have excelled in other competitions like the Olympic Games and FIFA junior titles," Nyantakyi said.
"Obviously 2014 is too soon, but we should look at Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022. As Africans we need to thank FIFA for increasing our allocation from one to two, to three to five. But now the time has come to pressure FIFA for more."
"At least we can start talking to FIFA about this again even though we know it won't happen tomorrow."
Iya says half of the European teams that earn a spot at soccer's premier tournament are no better than many African teams adding that Africa's federations are ''convinced we deserve more.''