Ex-Ghana FA vice urges calm after Zambia protest success
Posted On Tuesday, 9th October 2012
Fred Pappoe insists the Black Stars will qualify to the 2014 FIFA World Cup
By Patrick Akoto
Ex-Ghana FA vice president Fred Pappoe has urged calm after Zambia toppled the Black Stars in group D of the 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifying campaign.
Zambia have become three points richer after FIFA ruled against Sudan for fielding an unqualified player during their world cup clash in Khartoum in June this year.
The disciplinary committee of the world governing body ruled that Saif Ali, was ineligible to play for the Nile Crocodile after receiving accumulated yellow cards in previous competitive matches.
Many Ghanaian local fans have grown apprehensive since the ruling was made public on Monday.
But the immediate past chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee insists there is no need for local fans to press the panic button.
“I don’t think fans should be worried. What the ruling means is that we must win all our matches and we will be home and dry. We have to win all the matches at all cost,” Pappoe told Accra-based Peace FM
“I admit that the ruling will make the qualification more difficult but we have character and pedigree to surpass the challenge.
“We have to win against Sudan in the two-legged ties as well as beating Lesotho at their own backyard and ensure that we beat Zambia by more than a goal since the head-to- head rule will apply.
“We have beaten Sudan at their own turf twice and so don’t how we can’t do it again.
“I have no doubt in my mind that we can pass the litmus test. There is no need for anybody to start panicking.
We should have confidence in the players to move above this stage.
“The game against Zambia here in Ghana will be the crucial one. But we have the ability to score more than two goals to ensure we pick the ticket to the final lap of qualifiers.”
The Black Stars lie second with three points and battle Sudan in March next year.
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Well said!! To any Zambian troll if you come here I will insult your mother, origin, and everything about you so, if you have any dignity don’t post!
At a right Gods time, even if you can be home sleeping, i can guarantee you that blessings will still follow you. Thus what is happening to our football in Zambia. Lets go Zambia lets go.
If you believed in God you would not have sex parties after every win!! Kwaseato!! Hypocrite!!DEVIL worshiping dogs!!
We are the best
Yes we will qualify
Hehehe, Why are you guys panicking? weight untill we come for you…. Zambia lets.. Wapya bullet
Your mother is a whore! You great grandfather who migrated from Nigeria(Bantu Migration)… was a criminal!!! All you know is violence! Bullet this, chimp-polo-polo that etc etc… I am assuming it results from your origin and how your ancestors ended from Nigeria to where you are today! What happened to the people who use to occupy that area? Your violent barbarian CHIMP-polo-polo ancestors displaced them!! YOU DONKEY! YOU RAT!!! YOU VIOLENT mentally deranged dog!
Thats the best you can do? i know i cant compete with your insults but we are blessed. We are coming to get more points for our next game in your country. Chipolopolo all the way man
Whores don’t get points they get FUCKED!!!
You are the son of a whore what do you expect…??
Will see about that Ghana. but you guys just cant accept that we are better than you and we have proved this twice on the pitch ha.. Anyways what else can you say man
Learn to fight your own battles @canaman where does Nigeria fall in your rantings….you cryig bcos you not going W/Cup..shame on you n black stairs.
I JUST DONT KNOW WHY THESE ZAMBIANS BEHAVE IN THIS MANNER. YOU COME TO GHANASOCCERNET, LISTEN TO THE NAME AGAIN GHANA SOCCER NET, AT LEAST SHOW SOME RESPECT. YOU CAN’T COME TO OUR HOUSE JUST TO PULL OUR LEGS!! YOU ARE ALL UNDERCOVER BLACKSTAR FANS BUT YOU FAIL TO ADMIT IT! YOUR MEDIOCRE TEAM WILL SOON LEARN HOW THE BIG GUNS LIKE GHANA, IVORY COAST,SENEGAL, CAMEROON, OLD EGYPT AND THE OLD NIGERIA TEAM MADE IT TO GLORY. THEY MADE IT CONSISTENTLY ON THE PITCH NOT IN COURT. SHAME ON YOU! I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED EVEN AFTER THIS UNFAIR JUDGEMENT YOUR MEDIOCRE PLAYERS STILL BOW OUT IN THE WORLDCUP RACE TO BRAVE GHANA. YOUR STEREOTYPICAL IGNORAMUSNESS COMPOUNDED BY YOUR APPALLING NINCOMPOOPERY NEVER HALT TO FLABBERGAST ME.
Zambia lets go… we are coming for you slow learners.. your team is good.. we accept but Zambia is great and you just dont want to accept the facts.. Face it Boys
Not all of them Zambians, Nigerians are in majority, parading as Zambians.
Ghana will still qualify, sudan will give Zambia sleepless night at Ndola before we finally bury them.
so what u are telling us is that sudan is better than u bcause u have failed to bit zambia so sudan should do it 4 u so let sudan the best in the group quliefy not u fool.
Speak of your own team the BS and don’t call other country teams OLD…..no point in dragging others into this site un-necessarily…..presently I cant see anything special about our team the BS whom I believe you place among I quote”NEW” teams.
YOU IDIOT WHICH GLORY? YOU LAST WON THE NATIONS CUP OVER 30 YEARS AGO. WE ARE THE CURRENT CHAMPIONS.
Y’all Ghanaians, lets sign together… Ba Zambia nalelo ba wina, Chipolopolo, iyeeeeee!! Chipolopolo, Iyeeee! Chipolopolo, Iyeeeeeeee! Copy and paste in your PCs and cellphones you gonna need to use this chorus while Zambia is in Brazil… as you support your bradas!! Iyeeeeeee Chipolopolo!
no shaky at all 4 the black stars shall qualify with an ease. for the zambians, they are going to loose most of their remaining matches… isha allahu.
Ghanaman, are you just plain stupid or you were dropped on your head as a child??
Your level of reasoning or the lack of is truly worrying…it reflects a disturbed person with a very small i.Q.
A great mind harbours opinions opposed to their own, so when one comes accross a person who is intolerant to other peoples views, it showz how limited their intellect is.
In this cyber age (if you even know what that is), do you honestly think that you have the capacity to prevent or scare off people to contribute to this blog??
Its a good thing that your behaviour is not a reflection of the whole nation of Ghana..Get some help before your hate consumes you….wait, being the little minded prick you are, you going to shoot off a long reply with insults, sooo predictable…
Teach him some manners
Your mother is whore! Full stop!
Did you just drop from heaven or you have a mother too?Whatever insults you are posting on this forum think about your mother first becoz you were conceived in the same way as the people you are insulting.Your mum will cry to hear the product of her womb she carried for 9 months despising her kind in such manner as you are doing.A very big shame on you and i refuse to call you Ghana Man cause Ghanaians are good people
So is your mother. Actually your mother is both a whore and a slut…hahahahaha Zambia chipolopolo!!! AFCON 2012 Champions…. Zambia humbles Ghana in Ndola those are some familiar headlines punk!!!! Go hang yourself if you want or burry yourself under sand!foooooooooollllliiiissssshhh!!!!!!!! You are not even Ghanian coz i have a Ghana friend named pakwesi and he is well behaved not you bastard!!
@ghanaman, don’t bring the respected nigerians in this issue. You are bitter and idiotic son of a mongrel dog. Zambia has undressed you and you cannot contribute anything. We have played Zambia several times and we respect them and hence they respect us too. But your talkative has has brought you down and now you look foolish. Son of the Bitch. Zambia deserves to progress from this group and nothing else.
@gaynaman, why is it dat u gaynians mention d name nigeria evrytime in dis site? 4 ur information no body cares about gayna in 9ija.. U even depend and relied on us in evry way.
Your hairy mother is whore! Full stop!
@riquelme. Don’t be annoyed we zambians knows dat u ‘re far beter than ghana in evry aspect. So just leave them 4 us to teach dem futbol lesson. For ur information we zambians are planning to beat them at dia back yard come next year.
@ghanaman.. It seems u just heard d word whore?, dats why u are busy calling ur mother a whore
Guys, do not pay attention to Ghanaman, he is amazingly ignorant and of small intellect…his like a puppet and we the puppeteers..wait and see what i mean..if you from Zed, just post anything and see his response..its all the same….insults, etc we are determining his responses…..
Ghanaman, here is something to keep you busy. Seeing that we were given three goals in addition to the three points, can you tell us whom you would prefer scored the goals and how. Was it Katongo or Mayuka? In which half, first or second? Feel free to be imaginative. Let you imagination flow. I will give your more praise depending on how imaginative you are. There you go.
Imwe, umuntu uyu chipuba saana….even as you’ve given him some names to choose from, his incapable of any imagining…his intellect simply doesnt allow him to rise to such levels of imagination….its torture for him
It was Saif Ali who scored 3 own goals. Agony is that he thought he was scoring against Zambia only to discover that he was scoring against his own country. Sudan militias, roast that chap for the dilemma he had put you in. Remember the Colombian style of punishment when a player scored an own goal?
These zambians ought to be ashamed of themselves for finding easy way out of the group.imbecile zambians with no mothers milk,be very prepared when coming to Ghana.
You must be a chicken like your name suggests! who wouldnt celebrate? You ghanians have small brains?? i cant seem to understand were you hail such comments from deep down your hearts you wish it could have been you. Anyway, human beings have various ways of expressing their failures and yours ghanians are nothing to be desired!
Ghana man eh!! you are behaving like you were sucking a dick instead of a boob when you were young ..who lets this kid play on his computer?
why our Ghanaian brothers are so annoyed over the decision which was made by fifa to award points to Zambia because Sudan used a player who was on suspension so that the can beat Zambia at all cost,NOone complained about that,because most of the African teams wanted Zambia to lose the game after winning the African cup.please my Ghanaian brother swallow your pride and accept that Zambia are the champion of Africa,and they have beaten you twice in a year. wait and see,we are coming at your backyard next year and watch what will happen after 94 minutes of the game on that day in Accra, Ghana.may the almighty God bless that day in Ghana so that more Ghanaian can see for themselves and believe that Zambia is a champion and is better than Ghana
So that suspended sudanese player must really be a KING KONG. Zambians are saying that without him, the results would have been different. I think otherwise, Zambia would have lost any way.
Clearly those points are unmerited gifts and you guys are still riding the luck that saw you through the nations cup. There is some element of luck in football ( and assistance from officials) but there is a limit to it as well. Some day Zambia will run out of luck and it will boil down to pure pedigree and performance and this where the likes of Ghana, Nigeria, CIV, Cameroon and Egypt have made their name. Not though gifted points in the boardroom.
Sometimes i pause to ask:In the unlikely event that zambia qualifies for the Mundial and finds themselves in a group comprising say Germany, Serbia and australia,can they win a single point from the group or they will disgrace africa like the former Zaire did in some years past?
Food for thought
Do you know that Zambia beat Sudan 3-0 at the Africa Cup?
We dont know what happened for sudan to win 2-0 but really do you honestly, in your right state of mind, think sudan can beat Zambia whenever they feel like?
I think what ghanaian should be concerned about now is fielding the right players
U Ghanians just support us at the world cup, its our tym. Think about the Malawi game as well. We hav Uganda to deal with, a trick game this u know. gudluck in future endeavors Ghana
i dont remember the last time Ghana had beaten Zambia. All i know is that for the past 20 years Zambia has been beating Ghana by 1 nill. Ghana humble yoself Zambia has alwys been superior over u.
Ghana won 1-0 in senegal ’92 when you had the likes of Charles Musonda, Gibby Mbasela etc ie if you remember, may be you are a small boy.
Ghana again beat Zambia 4-1 in a london friendly a couple of years ago when we had the likes of Junior Agogo, Essien and Muntari playing.
Zambia have had their way in recent times (south africa ’96 and twice this year) but the tables are bound to turn. No team messes up with Ghana for a period of time without getting humbled (ask SA, CIV and NGA).
See you in Kumasi
We can all see that we can never compare to the Zambian Nation team at our current state. They are a better team than us. All the best Zambia
Does it mean that Ghanaians are known to be insulting? Shame on these pipo. No wonder this time around they will not see Brazil, its Zambia’s turn.
prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ghana you losers we wired in gabon and we wired you in zambia and we will wire you in your own country hehehehehhahahahaha
At the level where Zambia has reached, its impossible for the black stars to snash any point from us.It is easier for a camel to pass through the eyes of a needle than Ghana to win against Zambia.You will be obleterated or should me say exterminated like no mans business.
Guys guys, guys !!!!
Most people here are Nigerians parading as Zambians. You can easily identify a Zambian by their way of writing. Their manner of communication is different from ours.
U guys shud b ashamed of urslfs. U visit a ghanaian web syt n insult n provoke us. U hv no respect 4 us n may God 4give u.ghanaman leave dem 2 talk d little english deir k.g. teacher tot dem
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Zambians here you must learn to be polite because no Ghanaian has gone to your national website to do what you are doing here now.We have our national sports web and can freely air our views and if you want to do the same,let your government create one so that you express your opinions .If you still want to be here,then do that in a healthy manner and not as what you are doing now.Ghana has a football history and famous for football all over europe.I am sure Zambians will never be so glad if they beat somalia.Beating Ghana and jubilating immensely tells you Zambians as a Country the superiority of Ghana.You will be hypocrytes if you continue to compare the strength of Ghana football to that of Zambia.We give credit to Zambia for doing well this year but still very far behind Ghana as far as skills ,experience,international recognition and history are concerned.Lets all wait till the time the world cup takes off and at that time all the world will count all qualified african countries by name and their performances there will be also seen by every single soul.Behave as Africans because many Europeans also read what you guys write here.
Good submission!
God humbles the pride and gives grace to the humble ones. If u Ghanians continue leaving with that ego of not accepting yo failures u will find yoself our of W. cup brazil. If u are still good enough just work hard and prove to us that u are still good.
Guys, lets just wait n hope bth teams make 2013 AFCON were we cud meet again b4 the W/Cup in Acraa.It wil b interesting to see who cums out victorius although history is on our side.
Shame on your black thick asses.We will come and get three points at your back yard.Advice Gayan to try music he looks like one.Mighty Chipolopolo will roooooooooooooooooooooooool
Uganda is patiently waiting to disgrace you before the world. Zambia has been riding on luck, and it’s time for you to be exposed.
Nobody remember any great football Zambia has played. At Afcon, Ghana dominated as well as CID, but somehow you managed to come on top without playing any spectacular football. May be you guys are the ones using juju. Look how Sudan cut you into pieces, Korea did the same. Malawi nailed you too. You think your juju will work against Ghana again?
Zambians l think are bloody people.They know what they have used their team for and that is why they really can’t play anything as football but finally get a goal to win a match.They will be exposed very soon.Just mark my words,Your arrogance is exposing you soon.Never even we hope the two countries qualify for CAN 2013,Ghana will never struggle to qualify but cry your own cry Zambians.How many times have you qualified for CAN not to mention world cup.Zambia is not going to any WORLD CUP period.All Zambians whether you accept my statement or not what is written is written.Ghana has qualified as usual for both CAN 2013 and WORLD CUP.
Zambians have no national sports websites to channel their views so they fall on Ghanaweb to let people know about them.A whole country illiterate and has zero technological know how.Stop comparing your team to the Black stars because you are no where near us.What is Zambia?
u idiot, do u know this website is made with an outdated version of wordpress? a cheap free software written in php for simple websites like these which dont need any person who is trained or knows programming to manage it.
Zambia has highly trained programmers, i alone can make this website unavailable, dare me if you want a demo
We only know Zambia for violence.
Zambia is one of the most peaceful countries in Africa
Do you know what GOOGLE is?
Before embarasin yourself on the internet about anythin, go to google.com and search for it, you will save yourself from lookin stupid like you have now
Oooh on a lighter note i heard when Zambia came over to Ghana for the CAN 2008, the players were running out of camp into the Kumasi township to eat FUFU- the Ghanaian local dish.
They ended up being trashed by their group opponents!
Is this true dear zambian frieds?
When we meet again in Kumasi, we will give all your players big bowls of Fufu and bush meat and thereafter we will wallop your side 3-0.
Zambians eat NSHIMA my friend, not FUFU, Nshima is made with industrially processed maize, not those fufu’s made with raw cassava n whatever else you put in there.
Those fufu things are gross, looking them alone finishes your appetite, a Zambia can never eat those, even if you paid them to!
i am enjoying the arguments. Bravo Zambia, bravo Ghana.
zambia again. Ghanaians am hoping we meet again at afcon so that we walopu again as we will baptise u at yo home ground next year june.