Agogo goes for Morocco

Ghana and Nottingham Forest arrowhead Manuel Junior Agogo, son of an Accra-based businessman is about the brightest spot in Black Stars? attack, as host nation Ghana goes to battle for the right to sail through from group A.

Now the target of several leading Premiership sides in England and Spain, Agogo has had a hand in goals the Stars have scored in the 26th CAN 2008 tournament, except the rocket-like Sulley Ali Muntari goal which sailed menacingly into the Guinean net, on the stroke of full time the other day.


Ghana?s other striking option Asamoah Gyan, is a total write-off and is as dead as ghosts in the land of the dead. Spared on by Liberty Professionals owner Sly Tetteh, many Ghanaians believe that the Dansoman-based soccer administrator who prefers to stay hideously behind the scenes, is pushing our national game down the abyss of destruction.


Proofs may be difficult but God upstairs knows that Sly Tetteh is harming our game and disturbing all of us.


The supply of chiefly Liberty players to all segments of the national teams has been a bother to all Ghanaians concerned with the national game. Even the choice of coaches is tilted towards Mr. Tetteh?s club.


Is it by accident that coaches Sellas Tetteh and Jones Attuquayefio are all national coaches, when other coaches are available? But thank the heavens there is a one special Ghanaian who has resolved to keep the Ghana dream alive and this is the likeable, silver-quick Junior Agogo.


Against Guinea, Agogo won a penalty for Ghana, and against the cagey Namibians he saved a nation?s heart from falling into its belly with a scrambled goal, when Asamoah broke a nation?s heart by missing amateurishly in the six-yard box in front of an empty post.

Everything points to the fact that Morocco must be sent home packing, for it is a matter of fact that that country has the propensity of stopping the Black Stars in their tracks, when indeed the big tournaments come knocking. The most recent being the 1998 fiaso, that saw Ghana absent at the World Cup in France. It is definitely pay-back time for Ghana, and Morocco ought to prepare now that everything points to the fact that wayward striker Asamoah Gyan may not be in the team to cause any heartbreaks.


Yet another drawback of the national team is the team coach himself, Claude Le Roy whose arrival in Ghana has been a great disservice to the nation by the Ghana Football Association.


Le Roy is pathetic when he has to read a game, and his changes are so bad that some Ghanaians have wondered if he really passed as a coach. The selection of sicklers into the Stars team by Le Roy, when fully fit lads are available is an eternal sin he will answer for on Judgment Day.


However all these facts notwithstanding, the Black Stars will walk through Morocco in a fitting pay-back.


Morocco will quite definitely go home today. Mark THE SUN?s word.