Black stars why oh why?

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• STAFFORD 11 years ago

  Players have been scanned and screened, declared fit and well. Managing a team/collaboration requires special skills: less emphasis on individual achievement, more on TEAMWORK. We know the COACHING TEAM have adapted periods a ...
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  Players have been scanned and screened, declared fit and well. Managing a team/collaboration requires special skills: less emphasis on individual achievement, more on TEAMWORK. We know the COACHING TEAM have adapted periods and products of rigorous observation, plus any TRIAL AND ERROR player testing...Good Luck and Common Sense to you all !

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• Not good enough 11 years ago

  FOCUSSING TOO MUCH ON THE IDENTIFICATION HAIR CUT, WHAT TO WEAR; SPECIAL TAILORED AND WHAT NOT,
  AND TOO MUCH BLABLABLA. GHANA DISGRACED JUST WITHIN 30 SECONDS!

  FOCUSSING TOO MUCH ON THE IDENTIFICATION HAIR CUT, WHAT TO WEAR; SPECIAL TAILORED AND WHAT NOT,
  AND TOO MUCH BLABLABLA. GHANA DISGRACED JUST WITHIN 30 SECONDS!

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• KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 11 years ago

  Ghanaians should stop believing that the USA was a sitting duck team ready to be defeated by Ghana.I had the premonition that Ghana was not going to have an easy victory and I was proved right.The match's statistics show that ...
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  Ghanaians should stop believing that the USA was a sitting duck team ready to be defeated by Ghana.I had the premonition that Ghana was not going to have an easy victory and I was proved right.The match's statistics show that Ghana was the better team and had the best scoring chances and yet we are blaming only the coach for our defeat.The idea that Ghana should always beat the USA is absolutely unreasonable.

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• obundua 11 years ago

  Modern day football is won by coaches.THis has been proven worldwide.just remember Ferguson , pep guardiola and would understand.when barca were in their peak, the argument was anybody at all can coach to win matched because ...
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  Modern day football is won by coaches.THis has been proven worldwide.just remember Ferguson , pep guardiola and would understand.when barca were in their peak, the argument was anybody at all can coach to win matched because all the players are good. With the changing of coaches what his been their performance.?

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• Tashime 11 years ago

  They are all selfish players.
  
  They care more for their hair cuts and not the game.
  Someboby please tell them, its not a " hair show" its a football competition.

  They are all selfish players.
  
  They care more for their hair cuts and not the game.
  Someboby please tell them, its not a " hair show" its a football competition.

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• Kwesi 11 years ago

  In Germany 2006 when we beat USA 2-1, our team wasn't better than USA. We didn't deserve that 2-1 victory and the winning goal had a whiff of off side about it. And even in South Africa 2010, we were a bit lucky to have beate ...
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  In Germany 2006 when we beat USA 2-1, our team wasn't better than USA. We didn't deserve that 2-1 victory and the winning goal had a whiff of off side about it. And even in South Africa 2010, we were a bit lucky to have beaten USA.
  
  This year our team was much better than the USA and we even outplayed them. But mother luck was just not on our side. In such big tournaments, it is not always that the better team wins an individual game. But the best teams come out on top at the end of the tournament.
  
  We have blamed our coach too much. He did what he thought was best for the team. Every coach has his strategy. And the BS played a good game - better than Nigeria, Cameroon and Algeria.
  
  What lost the game for us is simply two moments of lack of concentration:
  
  1. We should not have conceded a goal under one minute when we were the ones who took the kick off. That was terrible and may not have been the fault of the coach but the whole team since it started from kick off.
  
  2. The defence of the corner kick was terrible. How could they allow the guy so much space to head so cleanly? André Ayew said at the end of the game that the team knew the US were good at corner kicks (and other dead ball situations - set pieces). Why then did they fall victim to it? A player was trying to shepherd the ball to cross the line for a goal kick. And he succeeded in touching the ball again for a corner kick. It was unprofessional and not the fault of the coach. The resulting corner kick was the goal.
  
  The coach can be blamed for not playing KPB and Essien from the beginning. But the tactics he used could have worked too! The shooting at goal was bad. The crosses were too high. The BS finish was generally poor even when KPB came in.
  
  But all is not lost. We can beat or draw the game with Germany. It will be difficult but not impossible. Then we must beat Portugal. A very possible thing.
  
  All is not lost!

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• obundua 11 years ago

  Please revise your notes. The winning goal against USA was s penalty converted by our former great captain Stephen appiah.

  Please revise your notes. The winning goal against USA was s penalty converted by our former great captain Stephen appiah.

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• Kwesi 11 years ago

  Thanks, obundua. I'll revise my notes in the following way:
  
  The penalty was a bit dubious.
  
  And, yes, Stephen Appiah took the penalty. If only he were the one who took that fateful penalty that afternoon in South Africa ...
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  Thanks, obundua. I'll revise my notes in the following way:
  
  The penalty was a bit dubious.
  
  And, yes, Stephen Appiah took the penalty. If only he were the one who took that fateful penalty that afternoon in South Africa!!!

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• Kwami 11 years ago

  This USA match was an ideal opportunity for us to secure a good position in this so called "Group of Death" and we made a complete mess of it. Credit to our boys though, I thought they did extremely well to calm the storm aft ...
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  This USA match was an ideal opportunity for us to secure a good position in this so called "Group of Death" and we made a complete mess of it. Credit to our boys though, I thought they did extremely well to calm the storm after Clint Dempsey's first minute goal as I felt it was going to turn into a crazy match. However, our defending off the set piece is shocking to say the least and it is what teams like Germany and Portugal will target in our up and coming matches. I really don't like commenting badly about our coaches but... Appiah did not really have a game plan and even if he did... he didn't communicate it well enough to the players to execute on the pitch. We just kept mindlessly booting the ball forward hoping the likes of Gyan and Atsu (an extremely promising player may I add) would perform some kind of miracle for us in the final third. We barely gave Andre Ayew any opportunities to attack that left hand side and the one time we did and he linked up with Gyan we scored a goal in the 86th minute. We're incredible athletes. We're quick and we're strong. However the overall decision making in this game was poor to say the least a factor which demonstrates the sheer lack of coaching ability from Appiah who frankly, should have communicated tactics to the team better. Muntari as ever was solid in CM but he had no one to really back him. As much as I love Michael Essien he looked off the pace when he came on the pitch and KPB was just extremely wasteful in possession and tried to take the glory for himself taking silly long range shots. If it was looking difficult to escape this group before... the task is now proving to be equivalent to climbing Mt Everest! Many Europeans pundits and players alike frequently bastardise African football due to the severe lack of development and it showed last night, it was all brawn and no brains. I love our team so much, but we need to use our heads more and our coach needs to stick to a solid base/game plan to make us well organised like the Americans were last night.
  
  Reports out of our team camp in Brazil suggests that KVP and Essien have clashed and fallen out of favour with Appiah hence their omission from the side.
  
  We made it so easy for them to play. Our central midfielders did not push the tempo of the game, it was slow and extremely easy to anticipate. Atsu is talented but wasted chances. We just played the long ball forward, despite not having a big man up front to hold the ball up... Because the pace of the game was so slow, the Americans were able to defend against most of our attacks for the majority of the game. We could hardly get our danger man Gyan into the game. The painful thing is these issues are so easy to rectify, I just wish our manager could effectively get the message across to the players.
  
  Asamoah should not be playing left back, (although he is hailed for his versatility) he should be CM and I feel Ghana's best formation would be a 4-3-3 with a Midfield and Attacking combination of Gyan, A.Ayew, and Atsu as our front three with Essien, Muntari and KPB in the Midfield. Fortified with an EXPERIENCED defensive combination.
  
  We have so much potential as a team we showed that in South Africa 4 years ago. The stereotype that exists within the minds of Europe and most of the world is that African teams are generally undisciplined and lack the technical skill to be effective in competitions. We're written off and criticised for our lack of decision making etc and from what I saw from Appiah's team the other day they are right. We're too weak off set pieces and dead ball situations. This failure directly leads into the debate surrounding the status of black coaches in West African football being branded as useless. The odds for us to get out of this group are now astronomical. I still believe we'll do something though. Actually belief is the wrong word... more HOPE than anything else.

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