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Appiah must be bold enough to omit Essien from the squad

Fri, 30 May 2014 Source: Raymond Yeboah

Football is a game that goes with an adage, you cant deceive nature,when one reaches his peak,there should be no consideration or persuasion to keep on playing.

There are only few players in this world who had that kind of gift of playing beyond their limited age because of the truth and fact behind their age at youth level.

The likes of Inzaghi, Totti, Terry, Lampard, Rynn Giggs ,Scholes and the rest who are still having or had long playing time in their career,did not temper their real age at the youth level.

World cup is a tournament that needs workaholic energy and unrelenting zeal of delivering so unfit and inconsistent player cannot go by an experience alone. Michael Essien,has long paid his dues for Ghana,He is not an Essien of old,both fitness and competitive performance wise.Any competent white coach would not send Essien to world cup.

A coach who is going to world cup must be bold in decision making,if it is an experience,does Essien has a experience than London Donovan whom Jurgen Klinsmann has dropped from USA squad,can he be compared to Kaka and Ronaldinho,who have been also kicked out of Brazil setup.

Essien is an injury prone so Kwasi Appiah must take courage in dropping him out of the final 23.

Ghana needs fast and pace midfielders in a group that contain, Ronaldos, Ozils. To,me Kwasi Appiah must avoid cronies at this stage,the likes of Albert Adomah,Essien and Ackam must be cutout of the final selection.

Thank you.

Raymond Yeboah

Source: Raymond Yeboah