Ghana coach Appiah draws positives from AFCON semis exit
Posted On Friday, 8th February 2013
Kwesi Appiah
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah told his players to pick themselves up and win Saturday’s third-place match after their semi-final defeat on Wednesday.
The Black Stars were crestfallen after losing 3-2 on penalties to Burkina Faso at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit after drawing 1-1 after extra-time.
Appiah tried to lift their spirits in the dressing room and worked on the psyche of his youngish squad for their next match in Port Elizabeth against Mali-a side they beat 1-0 in the Group stage at the same venue.
His words to the playing body were paraphrased by Ghana Football Association Media Committee chairman Randy Abbey.
“He told them that he thanked them for what they have done, they could have done better,” Abbey told reporters.
“That this team he is building he has a lot of young players.
“Inasmuch as he believes they could have gone far and they’ve not done so, he wants them to focus on the third place.
“And then we also raised the issue of the World Cup qualifier and the fact that believes that with some time, we can be a very good side.”
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Massa, resigned!!! We tired of your bullshit!! U don’t know shit about coaching!!!!
This has nothing to do with Kwesi Appiah!!All the chances the players missed was he the one to bang them in??…dnt be silly!!.this is
something ive been saying bt
no one is listening…we need to
appease the retired footbalers
hu killed themselves for this
ungrateful country n got
nothing in return excpt tea
kettles..they r the ones holding
us bak..because deep down thy
dnt want any other team to
make it otherwise well forget
abt them n never gv them wat
is due..it amazes me to think
we can gv millions of dollars to
one man n his family hu av
done nothing fr the country as
judgemnt debt n we cannot
commit just a lil ova 500000
dollars to settle the retired
footballers??…until we do this
we might never gt tht cup
No way,this former Blacks Stars players and some sport presenters are saying Kwesi Appiah should not be sacked,is it because he is a local coach? they know he is not good but they afraid to say it open because people will say they are jealous of him,anybody who will say GFA should give Kwesi Appiah another chance don’t want anything good for Ghana football,i said it but people did not listen to me,they think since we are wining by the help of referees the team is good,i said it from day 1 that this coach is the worst Black Stars coach i have ever seen in many years,CAF wanted Ghana to go to finals at all so they started stealing for us from our second match,i was very sad last Wednesday not because we did not go to the finals but i was sad because Black Stars were playing like a primary school football team,he must kick out now before he totally destroy the Black Stars.
AA has brought shame upon Ghana football, the referee was so sympathetic with our performance decided to help us yet Black stars was kicked out by BF, Burkina Faso? The worst moment in Ghana football history. A BIG DISGRACE !!!!
Wrong selection right from the beginning, leaving out top players, took players who couldn’t play any part in the whole tournament. John Mensah, Muntari, Essien, Quincy, Jordan, Dede, warris, Acquah were all left out.
Ghana respectfully deserves a better coach.
SACK HIM PERIOD.
Why should he be sacked someone who never played in europe how can he coach ghana? See keshi is doing well because he once played in europe bullshit shack this moron.
Akwasi Appiah was out coached, out played by both Cape Verde and Burkina Faso.
GfA promised to send AA to several coaching courses and attachments but we have been deceived. Appiah stayed in Ghana all these while eating fufu and ebunubunu. The most weakest Black Stars I ever seen.
Ghana should invest in a world class coach for FIVE years. Akwasi is not qualified to even coach Niger, and he is NOT better than even Sellas Tetteh. GHANA DESERVES BETTER !!!!!!
If you sach him it would not be good for the image of the local coaches! In any case we should be concentrating on Brazil 2014 and do everything possible to qualify for the WC.
@Pinto with this mindest you have i’m sorry to so you may never achieve anything in life. You may blame your failures on ur forefathers and very stupid ideas.
Retired footballers who killed themselves for Ghana and were not rewarded should be done but that is not what will bring us the cup. The solution is The coach’s technical acomen and foresight and100% player mindeset like a military man. Until this Etirimud3 and we foolishly believing in that “Favourites” tag forget any CUP at senior level for Ghana