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Former Sports Minister makes interesting revelations about how Ghana won 1982 AFCON

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  • maree stopes 7 years ago

    gurus, mafias.

  • kwaku Stuttgart 7 years ago

    and Ghana will live again

  • Esi 7 years ago

    Thank you. You have shown us it is not impossible to get rid of the current management of the GFA.

    Saani Daara will be out with an inane comment tomorrow on this piece tomorrow.

  • Any lesson learned! 7 years ago

    Let those empty headed GFA leaders go home and bring back our bad boys, bring back our experience players.
    When you look at games we played vs Egypt and Cameroun, they used experience players to win against us. Why can't w ...
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  • $aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 7 years ago

    The Case for Black Stars Quotas
    The calibre of scouts who attend a chan tournament are not the same as scouts who show up for an Afcon. Afcon has more publicity, more history, more media coverage, more sponsors, more prize m ...
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  • CORNEY 7 years ago

    They should go,that organization is now about money, not about football,the GFA has turned Ghana Football to Ghana FOOLBALL,sack them,FIFA will only cry for few months but we have achieved our aim,Nyatakyi and his Daraar croo ...
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  • $martphones$upportBiz 7 years ago

    You CAN'T finish this resource from page A-Z and not become an established standard tech-support guru! Service based tech support business remains the easiest, most lucrative venture for an economy in recession! Your CAPITAL ...
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  • Lori 7 years ago

    Very incomplete story. They sold the match.

  • Brian Williams 7 years ago

    Interesting and illuminating piece. Where is our love for Ghana today? Let's not ask what Ghana can do for us, but what we can do for Ghana.

  • King 7 years ago

    Nice write up, thanks guys for the patriotism you exibited at the time God richly bless you all

  • Afrikatu Kofi 7 years ago

    Thank you so much for this fantastic,revealing and thought provoking piece.I feel every bit of this article because I know what a true patriotism can do not only in football but in all fields for Ghana and Afrika.The current ...
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  • NIPA YE BAD. 7 years ago

    THE REVOLUTION HAVE TO START FROM GFA BUT NOT FROM THE GOVERNMENT,SACK KWASI NYANTAKYI AND YOU WILL SEE DIFFERENCE.

  • PASTOR ,,OGOGLO QUARTER @ GUNIGUGU 7 years ago

    EVEN OGOGLO STARS CAN WIN SOMETHING FOR GHANA.not only ogloglo trophies but afcon.

  • Agbedefu 7 years ago

    It is just a misery that those in charge of the Black Stars lack national pride and focus on what’s in it for them. The players also see through this ignorant attitude.
    Personally I don’t think the Black Stars need a for ...
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  • Emperor Rasheed 7 years ago

    We cannot use a local team and win AfCON.Yes,we won AFCON 82 with a local team,because that was the trend by then.Almost all Countries paraded local players.Our league is no longer strong. I went to watch Kotoko vrs hearts la ...
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  • Agbedefu 7 years ago

    How amny cups has Egypt won with locally brewed players?? How do we fix it?? By not including local players the situation is gonna get worse.There is no free lunch ooo.

  • babs 7 years ago

    How many time has egypt qualified to world with their local teams.even Brazil national team is made up of more than 90% of foreign basee.how many egypt and even apply their trade outside.if u make business based on others s ...
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  • $aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 7 years ago

    Egypt team has many foreign based players. I know they have a player who play for arsenal and also Salah were both at the afcon. Our bstar squads of late is not inclusive of our best players in ghana, africa and the rest of t ...
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  • Villager 7 years ago

    Naaaa true oooooooooooo. A friend told me fell asleep while watching RTU vrs B.A. United at the Tamale Sakasaka/Kaladan in the 90s. he said he enjoyed "socks football" by colts better

  • Joe Lartey 7 years ago

    Some people can tell lies,who wrote this lies ??

  • Afrikatu Kofi 7 years ago

    Just imagine we are playing a tournament in Afrika-Gabon but we select and locate our training camp in Dubai.So what sort of waste is this?What sort of inferiority complex is this?What sort of lack of creativity and lack of v ...
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  • Villager 7 years ago

    Are you one of the people on this forum who were not yet born when Zaya Yeebo fledd the country?

  • KA 7 years ago

    Interesting and inspiring story for all Ghanaians to learn especially the key stakeholders of our football.

  • AHMAD 7 years ago

    Thanks to Mr Zaya Yeebo for this interesting look back at the history of Ghana football.

    But I am surprised that he should treat in such a flippant manner, the
    issue of whether Libya tried to bribe Ghana to lose the fin ...
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  • GOLD COAST JOURNAL 7 years ago

    He answers the claim quite clearly, he was not even in the country for most of the tournament, let alone for the final: how could he have taken a bribe. Don't slander him.

  • Kutsii 7 years ago

    Nyantakyi says he is a tyrant and dictator, alpha and omega of Ghana Football? The day of reckoning shall surely come. Iddi Amin ran away finally, so who is THIEF Nyantakyi? Time will definitely tell.

  • joetee 7 years ago

    When his bones gets weak he will fall

  • Frankie 7 years ago

    Mr. co-efficient,selfish Nyantakyi is GFA Mugabe and he's not leaving the throne until his bones are rotten. How can a country like Ghana allow such a hostage of our beloved BS? Change is necessary from the Top b'cus we can't ...
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  • EK - Africa 7 years ago

    this is the best thing I've ever read coming out of Ghana in my entire life (probably after the courage and wits of men like Nkrumah)

  • Eric@Jerusalem 7 years ago

    men like you should still be at the GFA to teach them what it takes the get trophies for GHANA. GOOD WORK FATHER.

  • D. k. Akom 7 years ago

    The writer forget so many things.... I remembered we went and played wafu tournament in one of the west African countries, and our last match we drew 5-5 with Niger before we explained to Libya.... Joe Carr was the first choi ...
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  • F Nortey 7 years ago

    Hi! This is Felicia Nortey, editor of the original piece by Zaya Yeebo. We'd love to hire you to give your account. Please contact me, my email is nortey (at) goldcoastjournal (dot) com.

  • Lori 7 years ago

    Akom, you are the man! Remember the Libyans thought we had sold the match. Perhaps they paid?

  • Odikro 7 years ago

    I miss you my friend; anybody knows where he is?

  • F Nortey 7 years ago

    He's currently in Accra. You'll find him on facebook, and you can also contact me at nortey (at) goldcoastjournal (dot) com, and I'll put you in touch.

  • D. k. Akom 7 years ago

    b4 we explained to Libya

  • Siisi 7 years ago

    In fact q very important enabling factor then was that unlike today, most of our best players were home based, and also we had a generation of very talented ball jugglers right from defence through midfield to the attackers. ...
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  • GOLD COAST JOURNAL 7 years ago

    For the full story, head over to the Gold Coast Journal.

  • KOFI MUMUI 7 years ago

    I wish the picture above came with names of the players

  • Emmanuel BOATENG 7 years ago

    These are the names of the PLAYERS in the Picture: STANDING From Right: Kofi "The Wizard" Abbrey, Ofei Ansah (the late),Emmanuel Quarshie Capt.(the late), Isaac Paha,Albert Asaase and Goalkeeper Owusu Mensah. SQUATTING From R ...
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  • Kwabena 7 years ago

    The best story I ever read in a politically divided and corruption infested Ghana.

  • Ghana 7 years ago

    Zaya. You look great. You were my senior in Len and were at the same Hall (Akuafo Hall). Later met you in London with Atampugre, Michael Nunoo and Chris Atim and Co.

  • Emmanuel BOATENG 7 years ago

    Great Piece Mr Zaya Yeebo. God bless You. This is the kind of Patriotic that the entire the rank and file of our National Team needed. Until this is obtained the AFCON cup will continue to elude us. I was young by then and I ...
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  • ASABUYAKE 7 years ago

    This is a nice piece. Brings back nostalgic memories for those of us who were old enough at the time . More importantly it reminds us of what unity and patriotism can achieve . It should not always be about how much money ...
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  • Joe Lartey 7 years ago

    This is not the real true story,the Black Stars were warmed up after playing and winning the ECOWAS cup,in Benin or Togo,and they flew from there straight to Libya,and brought home two cups to JJ

  • SPIDER IN HIS WEB 7 years ago

    Those were the very early days of the PNDC. The decision to take part in the competition was laudable and revolutionary. We stood up to a foreign power that wanted to use our beloved football to play its own brand of petty p ...
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  • Kofi Ho 7 years ago

    The solution must be drastic. Appoint a local coach. Use any player foreign or local during qualification. Once we qualify send only local players. They have greater motivation to make their names

  • Ekow Wilberforce 7 years ago

    Wonderful story and write up. I hope those semi illiterate and half educated players and management would read and take lessons from such patriotic and success story.
    If SWAG alone can make a demand to remove the GFA how abo ...
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  • CVS 7 years ago

    CVS LOGISTICS Do have any Goods,Cars and Containers to clear at the Harbor? CVS logistics is here to make things easy for us. CVS logistics clears at the harbor and delivers to you at the co ...
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  • sackey 7 years ago

    I don't understand... how can we have such experienced legends - Abedi Pele, Tony Yeboah, De Sailly, and so on. These are players who have won awards on the INTERNATIONAL level, and yet we are not tapping into this football w ...
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  • ABIRIWA 7 years ago

    THE 1978 AFCON WE HOSTED AND WON DURING GEN.ACHEAMPONG REGIME HAD PREPARED THE COUNTRY FOR BOTH AFCON AND AFRICAN CUP FOR CLUBS THE BLACK STARS WENT ON TRAINING IN BRAZIL ON TWO OCCASIONS HONING THE TALENTS OF THE PLAYERS THO ...
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  • Villager 7 years ago

    The players who trained in Brazil were promised estate houses by Acheampong but they got cash in the long run. Govt could not afford estate houses

  • Gyakabram 7 years ago

    Zaya is right. Everybody from the Ministry of Sports, Finanace and the GFA (all Ghanaians) were in the tight grip of the Americans and did everything possible to sabotage this trip.

    It certainly took the zeal and will powe ...
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  • Kankan Nyameba 7 years ago

    THERE IS SOMETHING VERY UPLIFTING ABOUT LOVE OF NATION, GHANA WILL TRIUMPH WHEN WE RESTORE SUCH A POWERFUL ENERGY TO NATIONAL PSYCHE.

  • J.K 7 years ago

    real patriots

  • STEVE 7 years ago

    Ghana football is suffering, and very massively but is being down played by all those corrupt elements. Until Nyantakyi and his gang of "mafiosos" who had kidnapped GFA for their personal well are kicked out, the problem will ...
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  • SETHO 7 years ago

    This is a must read, God bless you Mr ZAYA YEEBO

  • Jonxa 7 years ago

    The was no tribalism then ...Ashante youth learn history..don't believe in these stupid politicians of today deceiving you Rawlings was tribalist..if anything he used most of Ghana resources to make you society a better thing ...
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  • Special Prosecutor 7 years ago

    tell that to your tribe dude.
    Ashantis live with all Ghanaians and are not inward looking.We develop our kingdom from ancient hitherto politics,colonialism and that your rawlings coupe detat era.

  • Hannas 7 years ago

    Are you listening,Great players such as Adolph Armah were sat down

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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    We had only 2 Professional players in the 82 squad,they were George Alhassan playing for Gabon 105 and Emmanuel Quarshie,the Captain,playing for Zamelek in Egypt.
    I can say this was the strongest squad the Black Stars have e ...
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  • GOLD COAST JOURNAL 7 years ago

    For the full story, visit the GOLD COAST JOURNAL.

  • Dr. O 7 years ago

    Am only asking a question, winning afcon comes with a price money, is Mr. Zaya Yebo
    Telling us that caf did not give Ghana price money for winning the cup in 1982? Zaya a tournament was held in Gadafi's almighty Libya, ev ...
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  • KWAKU 7 years ago

    God bless you ,Bro. That is an excellent piece of historical information for the young ones. In similar circumstances, when no one else or the team itself expected to reach far, 35 years down the line, Cameroun has won. This ...
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  • kwasi 7 years ago

    WELL DONE GHANAIAN POLITICIANS NEED TO WRITE AND RELEASE MEMOIS, FANTISTIC JOB DONE,

  • SABARI 7 years ago

    WELL DONE NABIA

  • Ishmael k 7 years ago

    May u live long.

  • Odikro 7 years ago

    The only revelation was that the decision of Ghana's boycott of the 1992 African Cup of Nations was the main reason Muamar Qaddafi toppled Dr. Hilla Liman through the imbecile Jerry Rawlings. The mothers of the likes of Abakw ...
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  • Paa Kwasi 7 years ago

    Selection of the Players must be on merit/competence and not any regional balance issues.

  • Banahene 7 years ago

    inspiring

  • MR NO BULLSHIT 7 years ago

    Mr. Zaya Yeebo is right. Is time to dismantle Gfa. Ghana needs more people like Baba Amando and Mr. Yeebo. Nyantakyi, Sannie Daara, and Afriyie these guys thinks every Ghanaian is stupid.They strongly believes that they are ...
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  • Return State Vehicles Now 7 years ago

    Zaya should return the vehicle John Mahama gave him through the notorious fraudster Kwesi Pratt Jnr.
    The vehicle was given in 2014. This is one of the state missing vehicle.
    Zaya is one of the propagandist for the NDC regi ...
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