Akwasi Appiah wants to win Nations Cup as coach
Posted On Sunday, 14th October 2012
Ghana coach Akwasi Appiah
By Ameenu Shardow
Akwasi Appiah wants to win the Africa Cup of Nations as a coach haven been part of the last Ghana team that clinched the coveted trophy in 1982.
The 52-year-old led the Black Stars to qualify for the next edition of the tournament after beating Malawi 1-0 on Saturday to proceed on a 3-0 aggregate scoreline.
Ghana has struggled to get close to the title since winning it in 1982 – the closest the Black Stars have come was getting to the grand finale in 2010 only to miss out to a more experienced Egyptian side.
But coach Appiah wants to end the over 30-year wait haven met his first target of qualifying the nation to the tournament.
“Being a coach my ambition was to try and qualify the nation to the Cup of Nations,” he said.
“Now we will do our best to repeat what we were able to do in 1982.”
Ghana finished a disappointing fourth last term in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea after starting the competition as pre-tournament favourites.
They are again being one of the teams being touted to annex the title next year in South Africa.
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Those are what you call pipe dreams my dear coach. Zambia tuleisa ku afcon tukamulasafye ka mo, ninshi back to reality imwe.
FOCK off you ape!! Ugly Zoombian dog!
You my friend, your birth certificate is really an apology to the world from the condom factory………
If only that condom didnt burst, we would all be in peace right now.
Of the forums and websites i ve been to, i ve never seen an idiot above you…
Ghanians, surely you let this fool embarass your lovely country and its people by calling himself GHANAman?
Those are what you call pipe dreams my dear coach. Zambia ikamulasafye ku afcon tukamulasafye ka mo, ninshi back to reality imwe.
I don’t speak you language… Get out of here!!!
Ghana should just shut up and concerntrate on each game My Gosh!! Ghana mba dey talk too much!!
Well these are some of the results 4 ya. The other may follow soon.
Ethiopia 2-0 Sudan (first leg 3-5)
Cameroon 2-1 Cape Verde (0-2)
Ethiopia and Cape Verde have thus qualified at the expenses of Sudan and Cameroon respectively. This should tell Ghanians that, no team today is cheap, so we should stop the talking and do the do!
What did the coach say wrong… After all did Cameroon qualify de last time? Yabr3 mo
@ Godbless… The coach has not said anything wrong, but from experience these talks of going for the ultimate even b4 the tournament has brought us nothing. We have been in the doldrums for over 30 years and still wouldn’t learn how to talk. All the countries are laughing at GH now, because we always talk, talk and talk at the end of the day, we get booted out!! I was just asking the coach to be silent and concentrate himself on match after match and stop talking about the ultimate now….What did I say wrong? Mo br3 wan? Talking coaches or what I said above? The answer is there for intelligent people to know. I don’t expect everyone to understand me though.
Abrantie a kasa!!
Shtfu abrantie, is it a crime for a coach to set eyes on a cup.
Dnt be stupid!
I am not being stupid here but realistic. Oh yeah, reality has been the problem of so many of you dreamers out there.
We all want the best for the BS, that’s why each of us is trying to put his mind across. What I have however realized here in this forum is, a lot the brethen here are just dreamers. You guys should wake up and face reality as it is and be prepared for it. You Saxcee especially, should stop taking things personal and stop seeing anyone with a different opinion as your enemy. You are not more Ghanaian than the others. Wake up!!
Ghana will kiss the dust again at 2013 AFCON. Pride comes before the fall. It is about time Ghanaians humbled themselves. They might just go far!
you guys are the ones to talk about humility…what a bunch of hypocrits
SHUT up you foolish Zambian IDIOT!!
we will deal with you in Ghana.
I am sorry Kwesi Appiah you are not the coach to win cup for us,because no African team ever won the African cup with your trial and method type of coaching.Changing selection match after match.
YOu are an idiot!!
We made the final in the 1992 African cup also… GSN wake up!!
Akwesi we dey ur back.SA go b rof rof loool..da rubber bullets luck is finished dey wnt make it out their group belieee dat!..
kikikikikiikkiikikkiikikik
Huh?! so even rubber bullets are now enough to kill Ghana? they ve killed you twice alone this year!
No wonder the original copper bullets even buried you at the AFCON! LOLEST!
Kwasia zoombians, whenwe are competing with important countries for medals ur forcing rivalry on us.
Give us a break, you can never be our level::::
U zambians are embarasn africa…promoting n spread hiv, foools @zambia10 quit changn ur username idiot..Rubber bullets ur gun wil backfire u racist.i command u to forevr remain scared of ghana zombie.! How can u knoe wat a condom is n not use one? Retardo
ALL THE ZAMBIANS WHO COME ON GSN ARE MENTAL RETARDED PICKS BORN BY WHORES.FUCK OFF,IDIOTS.
So when will this disgraceful african champions give us a break?This year alone,Zambia has lost within 90 mins against MALAWI,SUDAN,SOUTH KOREA AND UGANDA.what a useless champion! You are a disgrace to Africans and that is why you dont earn the respect from Ghanaians.Your days are numbered!
this yr alone were hv beaten da black babooons twice in 90 minutes….we beta than u…u were are steping stones 2glory lol..
Just this year Ghana has lost to Zambia twice and to liberia, so what are you talking about
FUCKING ZAMBIAN!
THE FULL 16 TEAMS FOR THE AFCON 2013
GHANA,MALI,TOGO, IVORY COAST,NIGERIA,BURKINA FASO,ETHOPIA,CAPE VERDE,ALGERIA,CONGO DR.,ZAMBIA
SOUTH AFRICA,MOROCCO,TUNSIA,ANGOLA,NIGER.
I agree. But what you loose in intimacy and depth of renhsioltaip, you gain in reach! For example we would never have been communicating at all if it wasn’t for blogging!
A.A should quit talking about winning the cup at the moment and just concentrate on getting a CORE 11 team to play cohesively. winning the cup comes after BEATING EVERY TEAM WE COME ACROSS.
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GHANA SHALL SURELY KISS THE DUST AGAIN AT AFCON 2013.
Keep on dreaming!
Please read the story below. Zambia manipulated the game. Fake Champions.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Letters/What+if+the+Cranes+loss+to+Zambia+was+stage+managed++/-/806314/1533142/-/asm8kt/-/index.html
why are you so jealous?? Ghana has never won the africa cup with 16 teams is that why you envy zambia. Leave us alone we are the champions of africa 2012 getting consistent results leave us alone. In fact all champions before 1988 should not exist. only those countries that won afcon with 12 teams or more should be called african champions. It means Ghana has never actually won the africa cup. You cant say ethopia is a giant did they ever win it with 16 teams?
Conspiracy theories shit happens. They say a poor workman always blames his tools
Ceasefyr brethren.Dis is a mere futbol platform whr matured opinions r xprsd.Y turn da forum in2 an unreasonable foulmouthd centre of embarrassmnt?It’s very simple,JUS WALKOUT IF U CAN’T STAND DA HEAT IN DA KITCHEN.U can only shut up n ignore others opinion if u disagree rather than getting irritable n slinging mud.U dnt thro stones whn u liv in a GLASS HSE#.No sentiments;jus facts!
we da champs lyk it or not…
Ghana has made history in everything football. Zambia has now seen what a cup is so they will always play inferior role to us. Even if Ghana won the cup with 2 participants, it still amounts to winning. Remember that time zambia was still in the nursery.
Why do they envy us so much? it is bcos they are not and will never match our achievements hence they flood our sites to mock. Zambia can never be our rival when it comes to sports bcos they have nothing that Ghana has not seen
We have a saying in Zambia roughly translated in English as ” Previous successful farm harvests cannot satisfy present hunger.” In other words Ghana is riding on past glory. Yes Zambia is not your rival and WE HAVE NOTHING TO PROVE TO YOU. THE WHOLE THING HAS COME ABOUT BECAUSE OF YOUR ARROGANCE,PRIDE AND CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE towards Zambians. Your reporters on these blogs started the whole thing by using unacceptable language and biased reporting. If you are as big as you claim the best thing you can do is to keep quiet and prove yourselves on the pitch instead of talking!
A nation without History has nothing to learn from. History is made before it is written and we as Ghanaians are proud of our past glories. we are looking on it to achieve more which we will. Even in this very year, our women at 17yrs made history and that shows the depth to which GOD has blessed us
I don’t blame our reporters for being bias toward Ghana because that is the norm in every country.Even the English FA was bias towards its own by banning Terry for 4 match and 8 for Suarez who is not a native( for the same offence)
Yes you are right, Zambia has nothing to prove to Ghana.We equally have nothing to look out for from them. I have come to realize that it is envy and lack of achievement that are bringing you and your cohorts to our site. Pray to GOD to give you insight on how to manage your own sites and make it more workable and tell GOD to bring about civilization to your country to enable you and your country-men to have a forum like this and others that we have in Ghana. This is because if yours is working, you wouldn’t have been here insulting and making uncivilized remarks about our reporters and our people
The only reason Zambians come to this site is because you keep making reference to them. BTW we have our own site: http://www.zambianfootball.co.zm/. No reference is made to Ghana whatsoever. Your site has headlines like Lucky Zambia struggle to beat Uganda on penalties to qualify to AFON 2013. Was it only Zambia playing the qualifiers? Why not mention other teams? Cameroon for example was shocked by Cape Verde isn’t that a story worth reporting? In the other story where you reported about Sudan missing out on the AFCON you found a way of somehow mentioning Zambia using condescending language. Do you expect us to sit back and watch your stupid forum make fools out of us? Our country is much more civilized than your Ghana.We have nothing to envy about Ghana be is politically, socially, culturally, economically or whatever. Ghana is a 3rd world country just like Zambia.
If anything politically you have a very bad history. Your bastard half white former military dictator killed a lot of innocent people and brought about anarchy. A country that still practices the trokosi system! Your GDP per ca pita quite alright is higher by a few hundreds and non the less both countries are placed in the same bracket of Lower middle income. Literacy levels in both countries are almost at par roughly 71%. Our social and cultural settings of West and Southern Africa are quite distinct. Frankly we do not envy Ghana in that department. I have respect and great admiration for Nigerian authors though like Chinua Achebe and Nobel prize laureate Wole Soyinka. So what is there to envy about Ghana?
@trokosi wili tel u lyk I did wen u had a diff username footbal is al abiut records greatest footbal nations in africa zambia is not der..u hv nevr felt wat us lyk to win a cup no wonder u r still excited. even if u plae at da world cup n win 3 more afcon u stil not our class.we conquredda under20 africa n world.women soccer we represntn africa always wit nigeria.ur whole country is soaked in jealousy..da poor wil alwaes envy da rich thnk about dat u zambians r dumbasses makn senseless proverbs..again soccer is about records dats y der is a powerhouse soccr country n minnows. n ur country is not a powerhouse lots of nations hv 1 afcon n dey minnows zambia is no exception.
You are entitled to your own opinion but that won’t change the situation on the ground. We have the cup and you don’t. We beat you more times. Surely a minnow cannot have a better head to head record.A minnow cannot win the golden boot and most valuable player award at the AFCON. A minnow cannot be considered a top seed which by the way is based on the performance of the last three AFCONs rather than fifa rankings. So if that is your definition of a minnow then surely there must be something wrong with your brain.