Ex-Ghana star Lamptey hails Gyan’s Black Stars captaincy appointment

Posted On Tuesday, 23rd October 2012

Asamoah Gyan's appointment has been hailed by many including Odartey Lamptey

By Patrick Akoto

Ex-Ghana international Odartey Lamptey has backed the permanent appointment of Asamoah Gyan as Black Stars captain.

Head coach Kwesi Appiah announced the decision to hand over the armband to the Al Ain attacker after excelling in the role during the country’s 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Malawi.

The 26-year-old takes over from veteran John Mensah who has been elevated to the role of a General captain of the team.

The former Sunderland man will be required to spearhead the West African heavyweights to win their first African crown in 31-years.

The ex-national Under-17 is thrilled with Gyan’s appointment and remains confident he can fit into the leadership role.

“I think it is good decision for him to be made the permanent captain of the team. We wish him and the team the best of luck,” Lamptey said

“Coach Kwesi Appiah knows the qualities in him and that’s why he decided to hand over the armband to him and so it’s fair enough.

“It is a good decision that he has taken and all we have to do is to support him.

“He is our main striker and so he should score the goals so that the young ones will learn from him.”

The Ghanaian international is just five goals shy of equalling Abedi Pele 33 goals scored at the senior level in 67 matches.

Gyan has scored 28 goals in 60 senior appearances for the Black Stars.

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GH FUO, THINK BIG!!! says:

October 23, 2012 at 8:20 am

AS WE PREPARE TO GO TO AFCON, I THINK GFA SHOULD OFFER PLAYERS WHO SCORE MORE BONUSES. IF YOU SCORE, U GET MORE CASH. AFTERALL, RESULTS = MONEY.

IF APPIAH CALLS ESSIEN, THE BAND MUST BE GIVEN TO ESSIEN

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- Nii Nii says:
  
  October 23, 2012 at 9:12 am
  
  Very wise idea indeed. So what happens to defenders and goalkeepers?
  
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  - KWAME PITO says:
    
    October 23, 2012 at 2:34 pm
    
    good question Nii Nii. THIS GH FUO talks by heart.
    
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  - hahahaha says:
    
    October 23, 2012 at 3:57 pm
    
    lmao. they’ll score own goals for bonus
    
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kuukuphily says:

October 23, 2012 at 9:16 am

The armband should remain one place not passing around..

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zambia is a shit hole! says:

October 23, 2012 at 9:52 am

Arm band wil encourage him to gv his all.

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Koffi Koumondji says:

October 23, 2012 at 10:30 am

Wao !!! Asamoah the best choice.

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D Light says:

October 23, 2012 at 11:53 am

May b the way he sings & Dance or Fumes & Brags… or the way he hates Critism but embraces Praises is wat Odartey means as Gud leadership quality. I just can’t stand this Gullible- Sycophants who can’t speak their minds, just b’cos they r afraid to b hated by the Mass Media. I’ve been monitoring & hearing reactions concerning Gyans captainship appointment… n Shockingly! not a single
Ex-international or renowned Sports pundit spoke against the Move. What directions is our Future heading? Hav we lost our acient values of Courage, Truth, Freedom, Fearlessness and disoppressorship? Why r we destroying the reputations dat our Fore-fathers hardly fought to build for this nation. I’m sure Kwame Nkrumah n all those Legends who died just by speaking their minds would b ashame at their Generations.
U always hear the Ex-internationals of other countries- like Beckenbeura, Romario, Neville, Figo, Baggio n etc challenging decisions & appointments concerning their Football. BUT NOT GHANA! They all bunch of Sycophants. I wonder wat their usefulness are after their playing days.
For Mr. Odartey, he was labelled by Gyan as a ‘JEALOUS MAN’ wen he spoke against taking an unfit Gyan to the Afcon tournament. So i don’t xpect him to speak against his appointment coz Gyan & his stomach Journalists wouldn’t spare him at all…

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jesse says:

October 23, 2012 at 3:35 pm

This is good.Gyan has a way of bringing everybody to the party with hi ‘jama’ songs and every other player in the camp gets along so well with him so i think his appointment as the captain will be just the prudent thing to do.Coach Appiah is the one in the dug out with the players and so he knows best and i feel no one should question him for doing what he is being trained and appointed to do.
I feel if Essien is called back to the team some time later,he should be made the captain and that is if he accepts it because he is senior to Gyan.For Paintsil,i think he came out publicly to say that he has no problem with Gyan being given the arm band so that is good.At this point,unity in the Black star’s camp is what is paramount and not individual objectives.

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