John Pantsil wants Black Stars return
Posted On Friday, 21st September 2012
John Pantsil wants to return to the Black Stars
By Patrick Akoto
Ghana defender John Pantsil insists he has enough quality in him to return to the international level.
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has frozen the 30-year from his plans since he took charge of the team in April due to his lack of first team opportunities at English Championship side Leceister City.
But the former West Ham man has seen his fortunes transformed tremendously since he joined Hapoel Tel Aviv – where he has featured prominently for the Israeli giants.
He played full throttle for Hapoel in their 3-0 Uefa Europa League defeat at home to Athletico Madrid on Thursday night and says he will not sleep over returning to the team if he is called-up
“I am a Ghanaian an so anytime they call me, I will come and play. If they call me today I will come,” Pantsil told Accra-based Happy FM
“Some of us have the experience and I thank God I’m now playing regularly which is good for me.
“We have been able to write our name on the plate and so when I’m called, I won’t turn my back on my country.”
Many have been pushing for the return of the experienced right back into the team ahead of the crucial return leg of the 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Malawi next month.
He has two world cups under his belt and is the most second capped player after goalkeeper Richard Kingson with an incredible 85 senior appearances.
GHANAsoccernet.com understands coach Appiah is seriously pondering over the possibility of re-calling him into his team.
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If Painstil is indeed playing regularly then he could be invited to compete for the right back position.Lets not forget that the up-surge of the Black Stars over the past seven to eight years can be attributed to his stability and regular play at the right-back position of the Black Stars.Though Opare played well against Malawi in the 2nd half,I think Painstil should be called up to compete for his position if we qualify for AFCON because of his AFCON experience.
What do you expect when yopu have two lazy right backs in OPARE AND INKOOOM.
As l say OUR BLACK STARS PLAYERS are the luckiest players on the planet.
Just immagine the number of top class players who don’t make their national team in EUROPE.
You have have this bench warming experts footballers playing getting call ups and yet they don’t show any seriousness.
Some are even begged to play.
l wonder how many of our players can get into the THE SPAIN’S TEAM BENCH.
LET NO FOOL COMMENT ON THE SPELLINGS.
Massa,lets be grateful for what we have.other African countries are worse off.Apart from our local players,we can get good 2 to 3 foreign based players at every position on the field.All we need from a coach is to find a compatible 11 players to start and good substitutes to implement his tactics on the field of play.
BLAME ALUGUNTUGUI COACH APPIAH FOR SELECTING BENCH WARMERS TO PLAY FOR GBSTAR AHEAD OF REGULAR STARTERS LIKE ABEYIE, WAKASSO, YARTEY. BRIBE NTI….
I think it’s better to let young talents compete for the right-back place rather than him again.
Let us focus on the youth. We should be able to beat most African teams with our younger players. There is no reason to get nervous and start making rash moves.
HE SHOULD GO N JOIN HIS MODA’S TEAM, NOT GBSTAR! MASSA, SAUDI LEAGUE, MLS OR CHINA LEAGUE DEY. GO N SEARCH UR RETIREMENT BREAD BEFORE U BREAK UR LIMBS
AFFUL AND OPARE HAVE TAKEN UR SPOT SO COMOT!
Please put your caps lock off. We can perfectly understand you without THE USE OF CAPSLOCK AND EXCLAMATON MARKS!!
Do agree on your message though.
HE SHOULD GO N JOIN HIS MODA’S TEAM, NOT GBSTAR! MASSA, SAUDI LEAGUE, MLS OR CHINA LEAGUE DEY. GO N SEARCH UR RETIREMENT BREAD BEFORE U BREAK UR LIMBS
AFFUL AND OPARE HAVE TAKEN UR SPOT SO COMOT! EVEN INKOOM IS FIGHTING FOR SELECTION
i feel that the old guys except john mensah should just leave the stars alone…we’re in a rebuilding phase right now and we are still competitive…which is very hard to say for other african nations…we dont need to keep looking back everytime things get rough..i mean look at Brazil…they’ve been reuilding on youth and they’re slowly getting better..
i wonder why the coach always call inkoom,aboa yi