Bad refereeing has cost us in friendly games - Nyantakyi
Posted On Friday, 14th September 2012
Liberian officlas refereed in Ghana's defeat to Liberia
Ghana FA boss Kwasi Nyantakyi says bad officiating in Black Stars friendly games is a major factor in recent unimpressive results.
The Black Stars are yet to win a single friendly game since returning from the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Ghana has drawn 1-1 with Chile, played out another 1-1 draw with China and lost 2-0 to Liberia in the last three friendly game played after the 2012 AFCON where Ghana placed fourth.
Friendly matches have become very important for national sides not only for preparing the team for upcoming assignments, but also offers an opportunity to boost it’s rating on the Fifa/Coca Cola World Ranking.
The Black Stars’ recent results in friendly games especially with the draw against China and the surprising defeat to Liberia has not come without controvercy with match officials being fingured for the biases towards the home sides.
And the Ghana FA chief says the side suffered a similar fate in the hands of Liberian referee Jerry Yekeh in the defeat to the Lone Stars on Tuesday.
“Unfairness should not be strictly be influenced by where you come from,” he told GHANAsoccdernet.com.
“When we played China, the referee came from Korea, he was equally bad although he was not a local referee.
“If we had known in advance or we have been told that the man will be a local referee (against Liberia) maybe our reaction would have been different.
“But we were told the referee would be an international referee from Sierra Leone.”
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So Liberia deceived us to dent our pedigree.Next time we should insist.
No! Next time we should decline to play friendly match with them. Their FA can’t be trusted.
The gfa is not serious u ar going tn play a match with Liberial with a liberian referee in liberia and u accept for the match to be played. A! The gfa is not seriouse, they ar the ones to be blamed.
Massa u dey lie liberia frndly was plannd.u knew wat was goin.
try playing a friendly at home is not unheard of…shallow minded GFA
The Ghana FA President’s analysis of the Ghana loss to Liberia is wrong. Ghana cannot blame the referee for this loss. Coach Appiah alone needs to take responsibility for this loss.
The Coach underrated his opponents and took a second string team to Liberia and lost the game. He left Adam, Vosah and Opare out of his line up. This was the bulk of his defense. He also left Dede out of the starting line up. He benched Jordan which was a good decision but failed to start Waris who is as hot a prospect in the forward line as Atsu is in midfield and deserved to start the game instead of Solomon Asante who had not made it out of Ghana to ply his trade yet. These decisions cost Ghana the game in Liberia and not the referee.
A good Coach will always neutralize the referee and make him a non factor no matter how biased they are.
Every game must be treated with equal importance. Coach Appiah needs to take the ranking table seriously because his comments show that he has no value for the ranking table. The higher ranked teams get matched against weaker opponents so he should be fighting to win every game friendly or not to get the Black Stars ranked high enough to make their qualifying a mere formality.
Typical of Ghana simply complain even when they are no longer a best team in africa. Just accept that u were beaten period. Learn from Zambia, accept a loss and move on to defeat the next opponent. Chipolopolo copper bullets the kings of african football will surely embarrase u at accra sports stadium just behind your parliament building and international conference center watch the space !!!!!!!!!!!
This is plainly a proof that GFA chairman and the coach are not qualified in their respective positions. I believe they knew it all along but thought Ghana could win it anyway.
A simple research on the referee’s name could have revealed his nationality. Do Appiah and Nyantakyi have smart phone or computer?
I am highly disappointed of how they have brought Ghana’s name into a mud
Bad sportsmanship !why is it so difficult for Ghanians to accept defeat instead they blame match officials? Civilisation
So mr presido,stop playn the foolish friendlies .What money at all do you want again?
I just dey laugh……When I finish…..I will comment
THIS IS NOT BAD REFREEING BUT AN ARRANGED ONE.WE COULD NOT TAKE THE CUP HOME: IT COULD NOT BE GIVEN TO US ON A SILVER PLATTER ON NATIONAL DAY!
ghanians always dont wont to here defeat why we have to lern our mastakes therev is no way to blem referee we have to blam the coch u no u re going to play a march and u live ur no1 goakeper why
Mr man you hv to start respecting urself ooo dont u know this is what u get when you play mediocre teams,
Black Stars lost. End of story. There are more important games to come. Learn from that game and move on. In addition, why not invite some Asian teams to Ghana for some friendlies. I think that the Asian teams are getting stronger, and getting familiar with those teams is going to be critical. I have this feeling that if Ghana makes WC 2014 somehow they are going to be in a position where beating a Japan or Korea will come into play.
listen the man called his baby mama hoes one sooituln to all that is one day he may have a daughter ifnot he has a mom and you wouldnt want anyone on a mans point of view being disrespectful to your daughter or mother so bro i no how you feel but some feelings need to be left inside i feel a certain kind of way about my childs mom and im sure she may feel the same about me but all that matters is my kids dont here it at lease from me and i hope her niether
are we even going to make it to the WORLD CUP? hmmm… i need an answer to this question
oguchu:
September 14th, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Have been in Ghana and have watched ghanian football several times . The current Ghana team is nothing but just a bunch of guys with egos. This is what has led to the down fall of your perfomance. The ghana team of abed ayew was the best team which had a heart for the country. The current crop of players are a mess always complaining and looking for excuse whenever they are hammered. Zambia hammered them at ACN they complained and made all sorts of belittling comments instead of learning why they lost to zambia. Again they came to zambia with bubbling confidence that they came to beat zambia , what happened…….? As if its not enough Zambia shall beat them in accra again this is a fact. Hope u understand.
In fact l forgot tell u something. If you really undrestand football u will agree with me that Ghana national team players still believe that Liberia is a small team but how do u rate a team to be small which recently draw with Nigeria…. another bunch of football failures ? Next time just play your game and avoid belittling your opponents or else u will be shocked and continue complaining of referees on and on !!!!!!
Do not worry fellow Ghana?ans.donnt blame the coach-th?s team ?s a new team and ?s ?n team bu?ld?ng course and so such defeats can happen.Footbal experts ?n ghana has po?nted ?t out that th?s ?s the era ghana has got the talented crop of players s?nce 1994 after the Abed? and the Yeboahs.The present players ?n the black stars have what ?t takes to defeat every oponent -come jan 2013 onwards -they need t?me to play together.we have done ?t and we w?ll do ?t aga?n.let us accept defeat w?thout blames.My adv?ce to the GFA: fr?endl?es w?th low rank teams must be avo?ded.