Ghanaians in Europe Jan 24-31/2003

The performances of Ghanaian players across the leagues in Europe at the weekend:

AUSTRIA

BELGIUM: Jupiler League
A goal from Sambegou Bangoura was enough for Sporting Lokeren St-Niklaas Waaslan to win at KFC Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen. Kwame Quansah played 54 minutes on the losing side.

CZECH

DENMARK: Superleague

FRANCE
MIDWEEK:
Paris Saint-Germain FC moved to within a point of Auxerre with a narrow 1-0 win against Lille OSC. Mauricio Pochettino's goal separated the two sides. Alex NYARKO was replaced by RONALDINHO in te second half

Auxerre missed the chance to move to within two points of the summit when they lost 2-0 at SC Bastia. Michale Essien played 90 minutes.

Division 2

Quaye and Razak played in the team "B" of Saint-Etienne . Quaye score a great goal !!! It was his first goal in an official game. Razak played with him and not in team "A" because he was injured. Team "B" won 2-1.

Team "A" lost at home 3-0 against ... Gueugnon. Saint-Etienne is in the 18th place heading for relegation to League 3.

GERMANY: Bundesliga
This weekend saw the resumption of hostilities in the 1. Bundesliga as Germany's top clubs returned from the winter break.

A 3-0 home win against VfL Borussia M?nchengladbach enabled FC Bayern M?nchen to extend their lead at the top of the 1. Bundesliga to eight points. Lawrence Aiddo had a terrible game for M?nchengladbach. Kuffour came on in the 80 minute for Scholl, with the socre at 1-0.

Rostock - 1860 M?nchen 1:4
Hansa Rostock: Schober - Wibran, Jakobsson, Kovar, Maul - Lantz, Aduobe, Hansen - Rydlewicz, Salou, Prica

GREECE: Hellenic National League
Eben Hagan's Iraklis FC slipped to a 3-1 defeat at Derek Boateng's new club, OFI Crete FC, whose goals game from Pavlos Adamos, Mauricio Solis and Metodi Dejanov. Boateng, on loan to OFI, put in a good debut, despite most fan's displeasure at hispresence.

ITALY: Seria A
Brescia 1 Parma 1: An intriguing encounter at the Stadio Rigamonti saw Brescia and Parma draw 1-1 with both goals being scored within the first-half.
The visitors began the stronger team and so nearly achieved the breakthrough early on when Bresciano – who was deputizing for the suspended Mutu – cracked a shot against the inside of the post.
Parma deservedly went ahead on 33 minutes through Daniel Bonera, who scored his first-ever Serie A goal against his former club of all teams. The youngster got on the end of a gift of a knockdown header by Stephen Appiah after Bresecia's defense had gone completely AWOL.
Parma were themselves caught napping five minutes later when Roberto Baggio was allowed to break towards the far-post unchaperoned in order to slide home the equalizer courtesy of a precise Petruzzi cross.

Serie B

Venezia 3-0 Cagliari
(4-4-2): Soviero, Adami, Gargo (25' st Orfei), Calori, Maldonado, Rossi, Anderson, Brncic, Manetti (28' st Soligo), Poggi (12' st Da Costa), Fantini.

The performances of Ghanaian players across the leagues in Europe at the weekend:

AUSTRIA

BELGIUM: Jupiler League
A goal from Sambegou Bangoura was enough for Sporting Lokeren St-Niklaas Waaslan to win at KFC Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen. Kwame Quansah played 54 minutes on the losing side.

CZECH

DENMARK: Superleague

FRANCE
MIDWEEK:
Paris Saint-Germain FC moved to within a point of Auxerre with a narrow 1-0 win against Lille OSC. Mauricio Pochettino's goal separated the two sides. Alex NYARKO was replaced by RONALDINHO in te second half

Auxerre missed the chance to move to within two points of the summit when they lost 2-0 at SC Bastia. Michale Essien played 90 minutes.

Division 2

Quaye and Razak played in the team "B" of Saint-Etienne . Quaye score a great goal !!! It was his first goal in an official game. Razak played with him and not in team "A" because he was injured. Team "B" won 2-1.

Team "A" lost at home 3-0 against ... Gueugnon. Saint-Etienne is in the 18th place heading for relegation to League 3.

GERMANY: Bundesliga
This weekend saw the resumption of hostilities in the 1. Bundesliga as Germany's top clubs returned from the winter break.

A 3-0 home win against VfL Borussia M?nchengladbach enabled FC Bayern M?nchen to extend their lead at the top of the 1. Bundesliga to eight points. Lawrence Aiddo had a terrible game for M?nchengladbach. Kuffour came on in the 80 minute for Scholl, with the socre at 1-0.

Rostock - 1860 M?nchen 1:4
Hansa Rostock: Schober - Wibran, Jakobsson, Kovar, Maul - Lantz, Aduobe, Hansen - Rydlewicz, Salou, Prica

GREECE: Hellenic National League
Eben Hagan's Iraklis FC slipped to a 3-1 defeat at Derek Boateng's new club, OFI Crete FC, whose goals game from Pavlos Adamos, Mauricio Solis and Metodi Dejanov. Boateng, on loan to OFI, put in a good debut, despite most fan's displeasure at hispresence.

ITALY: Seria A
Brescia 1 Parma 1: An intriguing encounter at the Stadio Rigamonti saw Brescia and Parma draw 1-1 with both goals being scored within the first-half.
The visitors began the stronger team and so nearly achieved the breakthrough early on when Bresciano – who was deputizing for the suspended Mutu – cracked a shot against the inside of the post.
Parma deservedly went ahead on 33 minutes through Daniel Bonera, who scored his first-ever Serie A goal against his former club of all teams. The youngster got on the end of a gift of a knockdown header by Stephen Appiah after Bresecia's defense had gone completely AWOL.
Parma were themselves caught napping five minutes later when Roberto Baggio was allowed to break towards the far-post unchaperoned in order to slide home the equalizer courtesy of a precise Petruzzi cross.

Serie B

Venezia 3-0 Cagliari
(4-4-2): Soviero, Adami, Gargo (25' st Orfei), Calori, Maldonado, Rossi, Anderson, Brncic, Manetti (28' st Soligo), Poggi (12' st Da Costa), Fantini.

ISREAL
01/28/2003. Maccabi Tel Aviv went to Petach Tikva to get the full 3 points from Hapoel Petach Tikva. In the end they did but it wasn't so easy. Maccabi won 2-1 with goals from Prohanenkovas and Dego.
Maccabi Tel Aviv: Shtraober 7; Strol 5, Ben-Haim 6, Bromer 5, Abu Siam 5; Heyes 6, Banin 5, Dego 7, Biton 5(T.Cohen 83'), Goldberg 6(Nimni 62'- 6); Prohanenkovas 6(Pantsil 71').

Maccabi Natanya 0 - Maccabi Haifa 0
Very disappointing match in Natanya where Haifa couldn't get a win. Haifa with the new signings in the team, Idan Tal and Eliyaniv Barda, didn't do anything. Natanya were close to winning when Lobzrski struck a volley but Awate jumped and saved the goal.
Ishmael Addo plays for Maccabi Natanya

NETHERLANDS

NORWAY: Tippeligaen

PORTUGAL
Gil Vicente FC are in fifth place after substitute Lourenco Manoel’s last-gasp strike gave them a 1-0 win at Vit?ria Set?bal. EMMANUEL DUAH came on as a substitute for Vicente.

ROMANIA

RUSSIA

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

TURKEY
Denizli 2-1 Ankarag?c?
80 1-1 Augustine Ahinful (penalt?; A: H?seyin Kartal)

Ankarag?c?: Zafer ?zg?ltekin, Hakan Kutlu, G?kmen Bar??, ?hsan Burak ?zsara?, Stelian Carabas, Y?lmaz ?zlem, ?smet Ta?demir (79 Cem Halla?eli), Reinaldo Vicente Sim?o (58 H?seyin Kartal), Adem Dursun (70 Mehmet T?rkmehmet), Augustine Ahinful, Hakan Kele?
Subs: ?zkan Karsl?, Stephen Baidoo, Sedat Ba?, ?zg?r Volkan Y?ld?r?m

Players of the Week

Richard KINGSTON
S. Baidoo	S. Kuffour	S Johnson	Paintsil
E. Duah	S. Appiah	G. Aduobe	M. ESSIEN
A. Ahinful		I. Addo