Kevin Prince-Boateng will not return for Ghana because Ayews quit - report
Posted On Friday, 1st March 2013
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Kevin-Prince Boateng says he will not return to the Ghana national team because his friends Andre and Jordan Ayew have decided to resign from the team, a newspaper has claimed.
According to a newspaper close to the Ayew family, the AC Milan player was considering a return to the Black Stars.
But since news of the Ayews decision broke, Boateng who retired from international duty in November 2011, has binned the thought of returning to the Black Stars fold.
The newspaper, closely linked with the Ayews, reported that the AC Milan midfielder phoned Andre Ayew when news of his decision to quit the Black Stars broke.
According to the newspaper Boateng then made a decision not to return to the Black Stars because of the decision by the Ayews.
“Once Dede has opted out I have to forget about my plans of returning to the team,” Kevin was reportedly quoted as saying in the Ghana Sports newspaper.
The report has not been independently confirmed from Boateng’s camp and has been interpreted in many quarters as meant to put pressure on the Ghana FA.
Boateng, who was born in Germany to a Ghanaian father, shocked the country
The AC Milan star called time on his international career in November 2011, claiming national and club duties was taking a toll on his health.
His shocking announcement came after his short association with the Ghana national team at the 2010 World Cup earned him a big-money move to AC Milan when his career was going nowhere with relegated English side Portsmouth.
Boateng, who switched nationality from Germany to play for Ghana, had two high-profile visits from the Ghana FA to urge him to reconsider his decision.
He turned down the pleas for his return after GFA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi went to meet him in Milan and a subsequent visit from the current coach Kwesi Appiah failed to convince him.
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let them go to hell we don’t want to creat function in the team so three of them can go to hell for all what we care
@Bignii for all what u care not us.U guys must start looking facts befor pasting in rubbish here,do u know how corrupted this G.F.A is?hell NO.
This story is a lie.
Nyantakyi what’s up with your organization? it’s time to clear out the whole management and technical teams that currently manage the BS including AA! I prefer we lose a coach than losing talents needed to do the job on the field of play!
I must respectfully point out that it is better to have consistency with the coach. We cannot have players with egos trying to dictate what happens with the Black Stars. I say stick behind the coach and let the players move on. I think that there are enough talents in Ghana to still always field a competitive team.
yes we’ve seen them in South Africa, wake up if you are sleeping my brother.
NYANTAKYI IS CORRUPT. APPIAH IS GROSSLY INCAPABLE. YET, U WANT FOREIGN BORN PLAYERS TO COME N PLAY FOR GH? YOU MUST BE MADD…GH SOCCER WILL NEVER WIN ANYTHING WITH SUCH GROSS MISMANAGEMENT. CONTINUE CALLING THE PLAYERS U LIKE. ACCEPT BRIBES FROM THEM WITH THE HOPES OF ADVANCING THEIR PROFESSIONAL CAREERS N SEE WHERE GH WILL END UP. FOOLS!
MORE PLAYERS WILL RESIGN, JUST WATCH
correction: Boateng did not quit after he made a big money move to AC. Boateng came to kumasi to play against Congo. He was accused of not giving his best. He missed the next game by claiming he was injured. He turned up in England with his personal physician claiming he was now fit for our 3rd game which was against the 3 lions. The Gfa accused him of choosing and picking. They turned him away frim the teams camp… and that was the end… along the line, the gfa will then go asking for him to return.
Thank you bro., you are spot on.
Oh how convenient..
who cares if they come or dont come?afterall they charge 15,000usd per match.fuck them if they are not patriotic
i dont believe this news anyway because it sounds amateurish. GSN is it that hard to confirm frim the players camp before publishing?
GFA let them go. Does it mean if your friends are not around you can’t give your all? Why are we evenwasting time talking about these guyz? We’ve had enough of their pompous lifestyle. I don’t blame these anyways, i blame GFA and the management team. Ghana has talents that can easily succeed these guys but what do we see and hear? BRIBE and HATRED!!! This is what is tearing our team apart. Players differ in performance, player A can shine in his first debut while player B will take some time to jell. These guyz wouldn’t have bluffed us if we had created competition in the team. Before them, there was Black Stars and after them, there will still be Black Stars. They are not bigger than the country!!! Lets them go… ya br3 omu!!!
@Score i think u r still sleeping,u need to wake-up or be waked.If F.A didin’t end up their corruption life style in their system i bet u many talenetd will come retired premature.if u love ur country and the black stars then kindly address the issue of corruption in the F.A administration than rasing insult on innocent guys.
IT’S SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT! AA MUST STEP ASIDE AND NYANTAKYI AND CO HORTS MUST LEAVE OFFICE WITH IMMIDIATE EFFECT PERIOD!!!
Idiot!!
another fool smh
Nonsense! He did not come back even when they played all those days. If they don’t want to be on the team forget about them. Could he do this to Germany?? NO! Could they do that to France No? Why is the Ghanaian so cheap and why does he allow even bums to take advantage??
because is ony in Ghana you can see a coach taking bribe to fix a player, and is only in Ghana you can have Akwesi Nyantakyi and Akwesi Appiah,open up your mind and get my point Ghanaman my man,hahahahahahahaaha.
Please, please, do not support blindly. Have they apologized for kicking him out of camp? That public humiliation can cause ANY player to snub a national team. Can Akwasi Appiah do that to Gyan, Badu and Asamoah?
Be truthful for once. Akwasi Appiah is not the man for the job. Dunga was snubbed because of Akwasi Appiah?
Let ayew and bro go to hell. We don’t want them self again in national term any more. If nyantaki call ayew and bro to national term again that means nyantaki is big fool forever. We have sooo many players in ghana let nyantaki give them chance to play for black star and forgot ayew and beateng. Eh no better for them. We need players who are committed to play for their nation. Ayew bros and beateng are not committed to play for ghana so pls nyantaki let them pls. Let think ahead of next game pls. God bless mother land, ghana.
you and who doesn’t want them? and again the name is not Nyantaki, is Nyantakyi,and mind you if you swear for them is coming back to you beause they do nothing to you my brother, you better repent before is too late .
You are publishing hearsay again. Have you no shame?
there is a problem tht need to be solve in the gfa ….because is no only the news of the ayews and kpb who are saying they had quit BS , no i dont thik so we should first think of quinsy O.AB…. WHO HAD THE SAME problem WITH gfa committee and the they resolved up things ,A.A went to greece to talk to him to come and play for BS LATER Q.O.A REFUSED to come why because he told AA all the problems he had with the gfa.it is obvious ,that is the reason why A.A didnt call him even to play some of the qualification of afcon and the world cup. for me i am not really happy of what is going on in the office of the gfa that they need to really solve, also they should leave A.A alone to work as a coach and stop interfering in A.A job.
do you think they can do that to a white man? the answer is NO, that’s why they employ him to use him.
The players shuld kno dat, an individual hs nt started living until he can rise to the broader concerns of all humanity
Why ar we undermining the ability of other players.if a teacher quit his job,do you go back and beg the that teacher to come back.
I am so tired of some people with inferiority complex on this site that keeps embarrassing the nation. these fools can’t seem to accept the fact that as a nation, we have tallents way way way better than these useless ayews and the traitor kvp. so please fuckers, if you want to go smell their assess go but stop, and i repeat stop praising these fools. why are some people holding the black stars for ransom. if i was the president of GFA, I will ban these three fuckers from ever returning to the black stars. anyways, fuck all those faggot Ghanaians that continue to support these three traitors at the expense of our national dignity and the integrity of our black stars. Sorry ghanasoccernet but i just had to vent my anger, I am just sick of some of our fellow Ghanaians for their lack of appreciation for our black stars. i wish Akwasi Appiah well, and i urge him to ban these traitors. by God’s grace we will qualify for the world cup and hopefully win it
It is the type of you that bring disgrace upon Ghana. Look at what you have written, insulting almost an entire football fraternity.
You are thinking on the same line with Akwasi Appiah, he thought could win the AFCON with rookies to shame “some people” but we all saw how Appiah was out-coached, out-thought, out-performed and on a large platform proved to the entire world how clueless and unqualified he is. Are happy with Appiah’s performance? Ghana beaten by Liberia etc?
yes, I am happy with A.A performance. although, i would have preferred sellas, i am fine with A.A. He did his best and we didn’t win. He can’t be coaching and playing on the field at the same time. He did his part and our players failed to theirs. I will continue to support him until he proves to me otherwise. for your info, i insulted not an entire football fraternity but the few individuals like yourself that spew nonsense on this site.
then his best is crap. we dont need him. i really dont support the actions of boateng and ayew but if its enough to put pressure on the gfa to stop pushing only their boys then so be it. and all of u people who are relatives of the gfa members coming to the website to talk shit, God will punish you all.
GOD GO PUNISH U AND UR ENTIRE USELESS STUPID FAMILY.BONGA FISH LIKE.(BAAKA)next time write something sense and GO BEN SEA IF U R TIRED.IDIOT SON OF THIEF
When appiah is yet to go and under go training at mancity no body saw it.When boateng uses Ghana for his own selfish gains nobody saw it.What did we do?.We are rather chasing him to play us.But when the patriots are not treated well we start insult them.
for those critising Boateng for quiting Blackstars please keep your mouth shut bcos you dont know how much he paid before those corrupted FA did his nationality switch. Kwarasey went through the same and they played a lot of politics making sure they delay Frimpong’s switch till the qualifying matches were over, then its gonna be like it would look wrong to play him at AFCON as he didnt play qualifiers. Bunch of crroks.
you call your self the truth, but you are a big lair, where are you when Asamoah Gyan go retired? what do you said about his own retirement, the truth? look if you are against the Ayew family come out and said it, but don’t blame them on this issue, because some have done it before.
If you can go back and read the comments i posted in regarding Asamoah Gyan, you will understand that i am very fair with my judgement. I urged GFA to not invite gyan back. However, you must understand that gyan retired because of the pressure that we brought on him. we basically wanted him dead after he missed so many penalties. It was right for him to retire. however, Ayews are retiring because they were excluded from A.A final selection. is that fair? well, if you ask me, i will tell you that they are being greedy and selfish. thus, we should ban them from ever wearing the shirt. For your info, i don’t the Ayew’s family enough to judge them. However, i am just acting on what i am seeing from both Jordan and Andre
“Opinions are like noses,everybody has has one”,no need to call people names.I think others have been myopic and irresponsible by rfering to people as “inferio”.
This story is a BIG lie don’t believe it
If we ban players after sucessive mediations, this incidents would never happen. We sit on top and can shit on’em
I can assure all that this story was cooked in someone’s bedroom.
This is all propaganda. We all know that Saani Daara owns Ghana soccernet. All the news about the Ayews these days on this website will be aimed at painting them black. That’s not the best way to deal with the situation. Let’s remember that we need a united team to be able to make any progress.
A lot of people insulting the Ayews are also saying they are not needed and that there are better players than them. Then leave them in peace and stop the insults.Or these same people still want to force them to play for the BS becos they belong to the best that we have despite all the thousands of talents! What now??? Why all the insults???
Hnmmm… Ghana my country.Help us God.
Is a big insult to other players, meaning without this three players Ghana have no team, i said it and most people were crazy about my comment, by the way GFA should let them know that abedi,tony yeboah and osei kuffour are no more playing bt Ghana is still playing, if they have decided to retire we wish them all the best bt they shouldnt look back
Dede & Jordan can join KPB,Olele,Hans Adu Sarpei,Essien,Laryea Kingston,Mathew Amoah,Razak Pimpong,Quincy & Shilla Illiasu to form a “SHADOW BLACK STARS TEAM“ to be coached by Mariano Barreto….If Nigeria can win AFCON without Taiwo,Odewinge & Obafemi Martins then we can win AFCON with no big names.Let learn from Angola 2010 where we almost won AFCON with the absence of big names.If big names could win AFCON then Ivory coast would have won it 5 times in the past decade.
I agree with you that we can win with no big name player but not with Akwesi Appiah as their coach. He is the pungent smell in the room. This coach is a disgrace to the Nation of Ghana.
Its embarrassing, even laughable to see him stand on the sideline. He does not exude any confidence at all. Right now we are the laughing stalk of this continent.
How so when we did better than most of the teams at the African cup. Even Mali we beat when it mattered and we played our best.
with out ayaw brodas and kp ghana is stil doing wel
Asa retire on treat?eiii ghana people when we were praising gyan he was doing azonto now that we complain of his laziness he called it a quit n u guys r cool with it,now that the ayews r being treated like golfers by the gfa management commitee u caLl them names yooo I now believe u prefer china goods to uk goods.gyan has lost pace,skill and a whole lot u still like and blv in him,u guys no wonder u dnt understand football those who no pls help let remove this canca from gyan gfa am done talking.
INCOMPOTENT AKWESI APPIAH WILL SEND BLACK STAR IN TO DITCH.DISOLVE G.F.A MANAGEMENT AND SACK UNCOFFIDENT COACH WHO LUCKS TACTICS
Ghanaians talk too much when it comes to football. I think this guys are very good players. As for me when they make up by living i think they are right
@The truth ur very idiot. stop dis trabalism n lets fase d fat s tru wid or widout d ayews b s stil gos on wid or widout b s d ayew farmily wil stil b beta dan ur entire family kwasia gyimi gyimiiiii abua. hv eva ask urself why all dis plyas are having problms wid d gfa?
If u are a father n u hve children n some of ur children stop coming to u then there is something wrong some where.
Double Standard? Coach Appiah achieved the same level of mediocrity with the Black Stars that his predecessor Plavi was fired for why? The Ayews have expressed their lack of confidence in the Coach by resigning from the Black Stars, more players must not be allowed to quit because of the Coach.
The Ghana FA has better options and must consider them to avoid a domino effect from other players opting out of the Black Stars. Milo is available and willing to be a caretaker Coach he had the best results with the Black Stars in recent history.
If the Ghana FA insists on a local Coach then a Ghanaian with better international credentials must be hired. Marcel played for some of the biggest Clubs in Europe, he won the ultimate price with France and the players can look up to him. He is Ghana born regardless of how he rose to the highest pinnacle of soccer success. He is pragmatic and every ambitious Ghanaian must respect the path he chose to rise to stardom and fame. He could not have reached the heights he attained if he had remained a Ghanaian citizen and played for the Black Stars. He can however bring his vast experience and resources to help the Black Stars reach further than any African team. Hire Marcel and fire Appiah.
Who writes this piece of crap? Anyone who believes this story got issues. There is no way Kevin said anything like that, besides he is NOT coming back just for the sake of the Ayews, he is NOT coming back period, you all should forget it, ain’t going to happen. Watch Kevin refute these claims by Monday.
Yes we all agree that Akwasi Appiah is an incompetent coach and lacks everything that requires to be a good coach, you were around three different coaches in the past years and yet you learnt nothing from it. It saddens me the Black Stars have become a laughing stock around the world with players taking a temporary retirement back and forth then being made captain too? WOW… SPEECHLESS
even if dede shud hang his boot 2dae he will still b remembered for wat he has achieved 4 this nation.he captained de junior side to three trophies(west-africa,africa,worldcup)the first african under -20 captain to do dat nd u still cam here nd insult the ayew family. they were born to b great u cant tke it away frm dem.b4 de afcon it was obvious a lot of things were happenning in back.B4 u insult dem let me ask u wat u have done 4 Ghana so far,if de answer is notin den pls SHUT UP
Eugene shut up over!!!! One way or the other each and every soul help in the advancement of this nation. Their field just turned out to be a popular sporting discipline. Tell me, what has Jordan done for Ghana? How many games has he played for GH?…..I really admired Dede but to be honest am disappointed in him……No wht are they trying to achieve here? To prove that without them there will no Black Stars? Dede can feel free and say this but not Jordan….Before them was Black Stars, after them there will still be Black Stars!!! Humility pays a lot.
There is no need for me to reply back,everyone is entitled to his or her opinion.*Loyalty*
are you guys insane. when a.ayew played for ghana he played with passion. you can see he had passion for ghana it was the gfa and the coach which fucked us up. but tbh leave kpb out he is a prick even though he is very good