Coach Appiah, Gyan & Boateng make history

For qualifying Ghana to the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014, Ashanti

born James Kwesi Appiah who lead the Black Stars through the qualifiers and has


finally made a name for himself as one of the five football technicians for


Africa and from Africa.





Kwesi Appiah was given the job to take Ghana to the World Cup


after his dismal performance at the African Cup of Nations in 2013 in South


Africa.





Many sports journalists supported the GFA idea since so many


foreign coaches have come to handle Ghana and proved nothing. It was alrealised


that all of the nation’s football achievements were lead by local coaches.

So Kwesi Appiah was handed the coaching job of Ghana with the main


task of getting Ghana to Brazil 2014 and lo and behold, the Ghanaian has done


it excellently.


He lost against Zambia at the initial stages and from there never


looked back as Ghana trashed the likes of Sudan, Lesotho and Egypt to make it


to the World Cup.





The climax of the qualifiers should be in Kumasi when Ghana beat


seven times African Champions, Egypt 6-1 in a thrilling game. Ghana’s team


really jelled and won, making the second leg a mere formality.

Skipper Asamoah Gyan was the captain and in his era Ghana made it.


His name would be engraved in gold and mounted somewhere popular, but the man


who made the biggest history was German-born Ghanaian, Kevin Prince Boateng who


in history scored Ghana’s last goal in the qualifying to Brazil 2014.


Boateng came on as a sub for Majeed Warris and spoting the number


9 shirt meant for strikers, he did what was expected of him when he connected


well from an Asamoah Gyan pass. Ghana was down 2-0 and he redeemed with a lone


goal to make it 2-1.





As we have always been doing, I provide the performance sheet of


the players and the fans analyse and criticise.

How the Black Stars fared against the Pharoahs


in Cairo.





Ghana


beat Egypt 7-3 (6-1 in Kumasi and 1-2 in Cairo) on aggregate in an exciting


game.





Fatau Dauda – 8pts


Harrison Afful – 8ts


Daniel Opare – 8pts

Jerry Akaminko – 8pts


Rashid Sumaila – 7pts


Michael Essien- 7pts


Andre Dede Ayew -6pts


Kwadwo Asamoah – 6pts


Majeed Warris – 6pts


Asamoah Gyan – 7pts


Sulley Muntari – 8pts


Mubarak Wakaso – 6pts


Kevin Prince Boateng – 8pts