Ghana coach won’t rule out Kevin-Prince Boateng return to Black Stars
Posted On Thursday, 18th October 2012
Kevin Boateng could play for the Black Stars at the 2013 Nations Cup
By Patrick Akoto
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has not ruled out a move to convince Kevin-Prince Boateng to play for the Black Stars ahead of next year’s African Cup of Nations.
The AC Milan star shocked the West African nation in November last year when he called time on his international career claiming combing national and club duties was taken a toll on his health.
His close pal Andre Ayew revealed last month the 25-year-old was considering ending his self-imposed exile from the national team.
Appiah has previously failed to convince the former Tottenham man to rescind his decision to quit the national team.
But with barely four months for the start of the 2013 African Cup of Nations, the Ex-Ghana captain has not ruled out the possibility of including the player in his team if he decides to stage a comeback.
“Kevin is a great player and so there is that possibility. Like I have said we need the best players to play for national team,” Appiah said
“But that is not where the focus is. We’re still looking at players who are committed and ready to play for the national team.
“There are one or two players I am looking at and hopefully we will get the best to represent the country.”
Boateng switched national from Germany to play for Ghana and excelled heavily at the 2010 Fifa World Cup held in South Africa.
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So u still need this idiot back? Ohhh GFA
Kwesi Appiah is a diffident oaf.PERIOD.The bloke will definitely fail us.
henry u can still make ur point without insulting. civilized people must refrain from insults.God created all of us in his image.love ur neighbor as urself
AA dnt even think abt that
Monkey go work, Baboon go come chop????? Let KP Boateng sit out during the world cup and watch his mates at AC Milan don their respective national jerseys and he will come to terms with why one needs to play with passion for one’s country. Expect player dissent when he surfaces in the Black stars camp.
I cants say anything again!
gfa, and a.apiah what is the problem with u people, befor kevin there is black star after kevin still there is going to be solid black star, so why worry about this bastard, we dont need him
Ghana Black Stars can never be complete without kelvin Price Boateng and Michael Essien.
real talk.. they re great players and we honestly need them in the team…. i just wish someday Ghanaian will understand the reasons behind whatever the players says… Ignorance dey kill we too much… Oseeyyy Black Stars Oseyyy KPB,ME and forever AA… Good luck Black Stars
Pls dont bring rebels to the black stars camp
Appiah, Ghana will do fine without KPB. Please do not reduce yourself to ridicule. You took over as coach and you have the support of Ghanaians, but you must cogitate deeply before embarking on a stupid move of trying to bring KPB back to the fold. Why has he not come to partake in the qualifying matches like the rest of BS players? Do you think he is that special? Are we supposed to get him to play for GH only when we reach finals of important tournaments like Africa Cup of Nations and the World Cup?
KPB has used, misused and abused Ghana and her people and you have not learned from this? THIS MOVE IS UNWISE. DON’T GO THERE!
what!!! dat guy again. why gfa?.
We will fail again if u invite diz rebel,our players will be useless if he come to BS comp meaning u’re
telling us n de players dat without him we cannot compete. why diz time?
Yes, bring him back! We need our best players on paper.
So what about quicy owusu, when Ghana needed him, he did not say no and he is still playing good football, but I don’t understand why every coach of the national team don’t even call him to come justify his inclusion, what is going on
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,
I have been asking myslef the same question over n over again.
I noticed that people are alot more hostile to KPB than to Essien. Why? Both have abandoned the national team beacuse of injuries. Why so hateful against Prince. Give him a break, he’s constantly injured.
This is nothing but incompetent and desperation of the highest order.After all the embarrasment you suffered in the hands of this NAZI PODDLE,YOU WANT HIM BACK?
Akwasi Appiah has lost it.This Nazi did NOT pick 15 calls Akwasi Appiah made when he went to see him in MILAN.
Not only that, whilest Akwasi Appiah was waiting to speak to him after training,he sneak out only to phone MUNTARY ,later that he had emergency.
When is Akwasi and the like going to let this fortunate illiterate BASTARDS bring our dear nation’s name to the LOO.
The same thing happen with that UGLY BALLOTELLY.
If Akwasi Appiah can’t do the job,please let someone who can use what we have take over and not those who only see our dear nation as launch pad.
SO THE QUESTION IS,IS AKWASI APPIAH STILL GOING TO LET THIS TRAITOR INTO THE BLACK STARS IF HE DECIDES TO COME BACK AFTER QUALIFICATION TO BRAZIL 2014?I DON’T THINK HE WILL EVER PLAY IN AFCON.HE FEELS TOO POSH.NOT WHEN YOU HAVE DIRTY ZAMBIANS IN.
l AM ALREADY LOOSING INTEREST IN AKWASI APPIAH.
True paa but we need his commitments for the nation.
Akwasi Appiah is not serious. He wanted Balotelli before the guy dissed Ghana, and he would accept KPB’s return?
My question to the coach is, if you cannot manage Dede Ayew who is a very respectful guy how then can you manage these tough guys? Appiah is not serious.
Well lets put feelings aside here because most of us were hurt after KPB decided to quit the stars.
BUT TRUTH BE TOLD, NO MATTER HOW U LOOK AT IT, WE NEED HIS SERVICES. WITH HIM ON THE TEAM, THE STARS CAN HAVE A STRONGER SQUAD. IF WE CAN HAVE ALL OUR PLAYERS WHO ARE PLAYING HI-LEVEL FOOTBALL, IT WILL BE GOOD FOR THE TEAM.
My friend, have you watched him play this season? Can’t even give one decent pass in 90mins.Runs around the pitch like a headless chicken doing nothing.God forbid that this guy will join the black stars ever again.nonesense.AA if u and Nyantakyi think you are men go and bring this fool to our national team.
@Kay you are right. Appiah is not competent enough to handle the Black stars. If he cannot handle Dede how can he handle Kevin?
Only experience coaches knows how to manage super stars, and Appiah is not there yet. May God help Ghana.
IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!! Foolish DONKEY with an agenda!! It is the MEDIA and Journalist that destabilize the team and give coaches problems!!
A good coach protects his players from the media, even if they are wrong aka Mancini & Balotelli.
MR APPIAH IF YOU LET THIS GUY INTO BLACKSTARS AGAIN THERE WILL BE A BIG DEMOSTRATION TRUST ME.
Idiot!!!
I remember when kevin came to Ghana to play in tje 2012 Afcon qualifiers against congo in Kumasi. He missed our next game on the excuse that he was injured which got Ghanaians insulting him any how without even trying to understand his situation. He showed up in England to play in the friendly against Ghana only for Ghanaians to turn him away as if je is not Ghanaian. A month later after he quit Blackstars now GFA was going around begging him to come back. my point is GFa need to learn how to manage certain players if we want to win something.
THEY DIDNT EVEN PUT HIM ON THE BENCH . NYANTAKYI AND THEM THREW HIM OIT THE DOOR. IS THAT HOW TO MANAGE SOMEONE WHO PLAYS FOR THE NATION? TWEAA
Da usual monki dey work baboon dey chop stra..afcon wnt b attractive to kevin he jus wants brazil.kevin is not committd he is an opportunist.shine ur eye appiah.
GO shine shoes in Lagos!
I agree with all you guys.. He was mismanaged in the beginning of his BS career.. I guess somewhere along the lines, he got pissed at the GFA.. KPB and GFA are both wrong in my opinion..
Let us burry de hatchet, as we need players for trophy not to misused or insult dem, when a little mistake is committed. A.Appiah,u are wise and u dey bieee keke!!
why are we bothering ourself with this ungrateful being,we have better and commited players here both locally and foreign based.why should someone sweat to play for the qualifiers for him to come and play.
no way we got youngers coming through whose position would he take k asamoah, badu, atsu, ayew, afriye acquah, muntari, esssein, frimpong, annan, d.boateng,abu whose position would he take dnt forget enoch adu
Akwasi Appiah, you are the national team coach, dont listern to people, close your ears and do what you think will give you good results, period.
That day will be the end of your coaching career with the Black Stars
Bring him back and make him captain in arrival. At least this is what AA is noted for. It’s seams he cannot decide on which player to use and not.
A.Appiah please dont even ask him if he want to play for the BS or not, yes KPB is a good material we need but its not just about the good player, check this out good players can have bad tournament so whats the point in gathering galaticos with out a team work? Please he has made his choice and lets respect him hence it goes to all other players when you are on top remember where you came from or who made you what you are. Now injuries has plug his carer and he want to get back ontop so he has remembered the country that took him where he is, and i will not accept it when someone tells me its not Ghana that put him in Milan……… please lets make do with what we have, imagine Adebayo or Drogba being Ghanaian but without them we are fine again we have more than we can use with the youthful guys coming up who havent been called yet. hmmmmmmmmmm God bless Ghana
The history of Zambia and how it became a nation.There lived a man who had interest in all sorts of animals.He first slept with the snake and had no ofspring,slept with the frog and had none,slept with the monkey and had a FEMALE baboo.When he realised that the baboo had reached puberty,he slept with it and impregnated her.After 3months they had a twin Apes. They were both montrous Apes .The female was just ugly while the male was undescribable.Their pictures were not to be looked since it was described as horrible.After the death of the man,the monkey and the baboo,these two Apes started to fill Zambia as commanded by the man before his death”you two Apes,Fill Zambia with numerous Apes who will not be reasonable in anything but will attck human beings especially Human beings from A great country Named GHANA.meaning G-God H-has A-Appointed N-Nkrumah A-Already.”God Has Appointed Nkrumah Already”My dear Ghanaians ,now that you know how Zambia became a nation,never waste your precious time with them exchanging words becaue they are not human beings as we are.They are terrible animals,not even pets.They are ”Apes” Abnormal animals.All that they do are unreasonable.
I think the focus should be on getting a guy like Quincy back. Prince is good, but due to the drama surrounding him, it would not be good for team morale.
Don’t ever thought of that Akwasi Appiah. Remember his insult to our dearest mother ghana, on 2nd of july 2012.(kelvin Boateng final Insult:Ghana is a very dangerous place to live in) that was the headlines, we love our dangerous place.
dat guy is made of glass n a sex machine.we can do widaut him pls,he stil facin injury prbs at millan.
AA CANT COACH. HE THINKS BRIBES AND SO CALLED BIG NAMES WILL HELP HIM. MUAHAHAHAAAA, HE IS IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING IN S AFRICA. MASSA, THIS IS NOT MAPUTO WHERE U TOOK LOCAL PLAYERS TO WIN GOLD AGAINST MEDIOCRE OPPOSITION FROM OTHER AFRICAN NATIONS. THIS IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT BALL GAME. THE DAY I SAW KP BOATENG PLAY AT PORTSMOUTH I KNEW HE WAS A HYPE PLAYER. HE PLAYS VERY HURRIEDLY, NO CONTEMPLATION. PLAYS LIKE A CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUT OFF. WHEN I CAME ON GHWEB AND WRITE THIS PPL WERE INSULTING ME. KP BOATENG IS ONE OF A FEW PLAYERS WHO REFUSES TO PLAY FOR HIS NATION, BUT YET CANT SCORE FOR HIS CLUB. USELESS PLAYER…
AA CANT COACH. HE THINKS BRIBES AND SO CALLED BIG NAMES WILL HELP HIM. MUAHAHAHAAAA, HE IS IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING IN S AFRICA. MASSA, THIS IS NOT MAPUTO WHERE U TOOK LOCAL PLAYERS TO WIN GOLD AGAINST MEDIOCRE OPPOSITION FROM OTHER AFRICAN NATIONS. THIS IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT BALL GAME. THE DAY I SAW KP BOATENG PLAY AT PORTSMOUTH I KNEW HE WAS A HYPE PLAYER. HE PLAYS VERY HURRIEDLY, NO CONTEMPLATION. PLAYS LIKE A CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUT OFF. WHEN I CAME ON GHWEB AND WRITE THIS PPL WERE INSULTING ME. KP BOATENG IS ONE OF A FEW PLAYERS WHO REFUSES TO PLAY FOR HIS NATION, BUT YET CANT SCORE FOR HIS CLUB. USELESS PLAYER…AC MILAN WILL SELL HIM SOON, JUST WATCH
Why can’t the GFA do away with dis kevin issue and concerntrate on the comitted players.
Why should he be chasing people who insult Ghana to play for Ghana when there are people like balotelli’s brother Enoch Barwuah and Emmanuel frimpong who would like to play for Ghana huh?