Massive clear-out to hit Black Stars ahead of World Cup qualifiers
Posted On Sunday, 17th February 2013
Ghana players after their semi-final defeat to Burkina Faso
By Al-Ibrahim
Ghana’s squad will undergo massive changes before the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Sudan next month.
Head coach Kwesi Appiah and the technical team will not invite players whose commitment levels at the just concluded Africa Cup of Nations were below expectations.
Appiah’s technical report submitted to the Ghana FA on why the Black Stars failed to win a fifth title, highlighted that some players could not punch above their weight.
This has forced the management and technical team team to reconsider the future of some players.
“Up to the time that we played the two friendly against Egypt and Tunisia nobody was in doubt at all about the commitment of the players but as the competition rolled out in the first two games, it was then an opportunity to assess the level each player and this was the review we did,” Ghana FA president Kwesi Nyantakyi said.
“Some people did well in the first game and that was it. Some players played two games and then went to sleep and I think the national team deserves better than that.
“We are very excited about at the performances of the young players who got the opportunity some of them debutants and I think that with encouragement we’ll get more out of them”.
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Starting with the coach …
No, u wrong, Gyan first, then the next striker selection then we knw whether its still the coach then he is out.
Heads must roll from the top starting with the coach or we are destine for a free fall. A clueless and incompetent coach cannot identify and manage committed players. GFA and the coach both agreed on our poor performance but yet they are scared to make right, such mediocre will get us nowhere near Cape Verde.
Kwarasey was dropped because he conceded 2 goals in a warm up game. Are you f**king kidding me?
do u sincerely believe kwarasey is better than dauda. u got to be f**kin kiddin me
Yes the coach has to go cos he does not kno wat he is doin.i also think the gfa is full of shit.i can bet on everythin that when dede ayew was excluded frm the squard if it was kpb they would hav treated him differend.how can u also drop quincy.and jordan who i think on some reall shit is in top form better than gyan.and they should stop all that one striker bullshit.we need two strikers upfront.the gfa shoulf go for sellas tetteh
i agree perfectly with you coach.there are training horses,and palyers who play well in certain matches but the real players are those who play well in every match.but the fitness level of the whole team is questionable.the mistake most coaches make is that they assume that the playres are professional and are fit always but that is not the case.some are stamina suspects.i have had the opportunity of watching the black stars train and it was a joke.there was no emphasis on fitness but it is only when you are fit that you can exhibit your skills and our match against burkina faso was a clear manifestation of that fact.
Very funny. You take mediocre players to a tournament and you expect a world class performance???? Is this guy serious at all??? Please dont let us loose the respect we have for you.Yes you are a nice person but we need a competent coach not a nice personality or whatever the media wants us to believe.
Secondly the moment any serious player sees your technical ineptitude he will totally loose confidence in you hence the sub par performance by the few good players we had in the team.AA please shut up and find a way to improve your technical understanding of the game before is too late cos I bet you we will not forgive you if we fail to qualify for the world cup
The coach, Kwasi Appiah is a joke. He cannot read and change any game when we are losing. He has no coaching experience .Let’s replace him with Sellas Tetteh and Maxwell Konadu who have both been tried and tested. Also most of the old players like Derrek Boateng, John Mensah and John Paintsil should be done away with. They are more than 40 years and lack stamina. Opare Inkoom and Afful can play the 2 position instead of Paintsil. Kissi, Afful or Massahudu can play 3. Boye, Vorsah, Jonathan and Frimpong can play 5 and 4. Gyan who has skills but cannot score can play 7 with Adomah or Asante . Essien, Anan, Rabiu, Frimpong or Badu can play 6 or 8 .
Atsu Dede Wakaso and Muntari can play 11 or 10. Jordan, Warris Yiadom can play the 9 position. I will RECOMMEND the following starting 11
1. Dauda
2. Opare
3. Afful
4. E. Frimpong
5. Boye
6. Essien
7. Gyan
8. Dede
9. Jordan
10. Atsu
11.Muntari
With a 442 formation
Idiot. Dede and Jordan are playing for Marseille. And how is Marseille doing? Kwarassey is far better than Dauda. Gyan, Dede and Jordan are selfish players we do not need in the team. Kwadwo Asamoah is ghana’s best player at the moment, and I don’t even see his name on your list. Do you have anything against him? Idiot.
Oh my God!!! I am surprised why asanktwi obviously A cricket fan decides to comment on football. How is marseille doing in Ligue 1? I won’t waste.my breath.
Nonetheless, YES. you are right on KWARASEY being a better option than dauda.
and please @ijahman, I hope Afful is not your Leftback (LB) player.
YOU ARE SELFISH GHANAIAN AND YOU KNOW NOTHING THAN EATING FOU FOU,GO AND SLEEP, BOLABOLA.
dede in e heart of midfield?
frimpong ar centre back?
gyan as a winger?
muntari as a winger after all these yrs?
jordan to leas attack, why nt augustine arhinful?
u retired KASA or wat. he was one of our best performers @ e AFCON.
I’m so glad u’re nowher near e team.tanx
Good. No more bribe. No more fighting with players, manage them like the way sulley muntari was managed in his troublesome days. we all rememeber?
LIST OF MEDIOCRE PLAYERS:
Emmanuel Clottey
Kissi Boateng
DEREK BOATENG
gyan (consider him when gets out of gulf)
Pantsil, (no overlapping crosses. plus will get injured/tired and waste our subs)
Solomon Asante (is he our messi or what? then play him as a CAM, centralattackingmidfielder, not a winger).
Even in CAM, solomon asante will still suck. because he can’t shoot, he can’t jump ,and as a winger he can’t cross. He can only push the ball and run.
our potential CAM’S are Andre Ayew, KPB, Sulley Muntari, Albert adomah, quincy abeyie and obviously if we can sit up and HOOK memphis depay of psv eindhoven as soon as we can.
@ askantwi its obvious u don’t watch European football Jordan and Dede are responsible for over 40% of OM goals and they are in contention for a champions league spot. OM have been inconsistent lately not due to them but blunders from Mandonda and some of their defenders but the brothers have been delivering offensively don’t let hate and envy cloud your judgement, be objective. We need their skills, flair and fearlessness on the team we lacked that at the afcon we looked timid and lacked flair, Waris should be included as well and Gyan should be dropped along with the coach, Tetteh should take over. These incompetent tribalists with entitlement mentalities who have hijacked the FA must be ran out of office.
I agree with you that Gyan must be dropped permanently or until he moves to a more competitive league. Jordan, Warris and Boakye-Yiadom must be groomed to take over the Ghana attacking department. They are young and fast qualities required to overrun the opponent’s defenses. Plus they are less likely to miss too many clear goal scoring chances. In football taking your chances is as important as defending well.
Pito You really have eyes of watching football most especially on the Solomon Asante’s issue, most people disagreed with me when i stated the same things at home, but i guess few people like you have the eyes and the understanding of the game.
This fufuo eating coach must be bold to get rid of some players no matter what. He should also learn to take many factors into consideration when inviting players and not just doing it by heart. Ghanaians will know this time when you’re being unfair with the player invitations and it won’t be taken lightly by anyone. You can invite Gyan but don’t play him as a striker, he will be excellent playing just behind a striker as he’s quite skillful and could score as well. Don’t be so stuck in your ways and think Gyan should always be the striker, he’s more of a midfield forward than a striker when it comes to the BlackStars. Now get rid of the following below average players: kisi, Asante, awal, Jonathan, akaminko and clottey. Replace them with the ones you thought were rather rusty, I don’t think they were bad, it’s because your soft personality couldn’t handle them cos they would have exposed you. Be broadminded Kwesi.
The squad needs major changes, it is time that we call up players in their respective positions and also that have had some tournament experience. GFA should have groomed the u20 winning squad into BS by now at least the starting 11. Because they had cohesion amongst them. Look at David Addy, I don’t know why GFA doesn’t want to take him to tournaments, they invite Jim for a few games and then drop him. But instead they take players like Kissi Boateng. This is bad, GFA shine ur eyes ooo. We are onto u. Dede, Jordan, Dabid Addy, Abeyie, Aquah must be invited and kept in the squad.
MR KWESI APPIAH, WHY ARE INVITING MORE DISGRACE FOR YOURSELF IF WANT TO CONTINUE THE JOB THEN RENDER APOLOGY TO THE AYEW FAMILY OTHERWISE THEY WILL NEVER HONOUR YOUR INVITATION .BESIDES ABEDI WAS FAR BETTER THAN U IN 1992 WHEN HE TOOK OVER THE CAPTAINCY SO DONT REVENGE BY WAY OF MALTREATING HIS CHILDREN
The following players must go! Paintsil, vorsah, kissi, derek, annan(asante not ripe for stars) ) clottey, (not stars material) the following players must be call to beef up the team. Defense (leftback) rahman and david addy (central defense) jonathan mensah,,boye, akaminko (right back)opare, akaminko (midfielders) frimpong, rabiu, essien, sulley, badu, adomah, wakaso, abeyie, kpb, dede (strikers) jordan, boakye yiadom, gyan, warris.
Please forget about KPB… we do not need him, or anyone else of his kind.
Drop Clottey & Derek.Move Afful to the right full back,look for a suitable left back which could be Kissi Boateng,Nana Kwesi Asare or Baba Rahman.I would prefer Baba bcos of his height.Play 4-4-2 formation with Essien,Dede,K Asamoah and Atsu in midfield while Yiadom partners Gyan upfront.On the bench should be Jordan,Adomah,Badu,Annan & Waris….Brazil 2014 here we come!
My suggested squad and formation for AA:
Yiadom.
Dede. Gyan. Atsu.
Asamoah. Essien.
Addy. Vorsah. Boye. Afful.
Kwarasey.
My suggested squad and formation for AA:
Yiadom
Dede Gyan Atsu
Asamoah Essien
Afful Vorsah Boye Paintsil
Kwarasey
Gyan is the perfect man to play behind the striker cos of his impressive assists, plus he’s skillful. That also makes him a shadow striker (2 strikers) as striking is his usual or natural position. This trick should work for AA.
Nyantekyi is the problem. He must go now.unpatrotic fa president who has decided to choose money and corruption over nation. Operation nyantekyi must go now. Join me in the fight to save ghana soccer.
The coach and the captain first.
kwesi nyantekyi and kwesi appiah are jokers.is he blaming the players or himself. He should sack his captian first. I feel that he is not a better coach.
My suggested squad and formation for AA:
Maintain the 4-2-3-1 but this time with the following players:
Yiadom
Dede-Gyan-Atsu
Asamoah-Essien
Afful-vorsah-Boye-Painstil
Gyan is the perfect man to play behind the striker as he’s skillful and makes impressive assists. Meanwhile he’s also a striker and can score with less pressure on him. This trick should work for you AA.
Drop all those inexperienced mediocre players who just run back and forth for nothing like they are crawling in pig shit.
February 17th, 2013 at 1:57 pm
My suggested squad and formation for AA:
Maintain the 4-2-3-1 but this time with the following players:
Yiadom
Dede-Gyan-Atsu
Asamoah-Essien
Afful-vorsah-Boye-Painstil
Gyan is the perfect man to play behind the striker as he’s skillful and he makes impressive assists. Meanwhile he’s also a striker and can score with less pressure on him. This trick should work for you AA.
Drop all those inexperienced mediocre players who just run back and forth for nothing like they are crawling in pig shit.
I said it,when the foreign coaches were here did you hear anything about player commitment?i said Kwesi Appiah will start blame the players if he fail as a coach,Kwesi Nyantakyi and his gang of lies please sack this incompetent coach now.
I said it,when the foreign coaches were here did you hear anything about player commitment?i said Kwesi Appiah will start blaming the players if he fail as a coach,Kwesi Nyantakyi and his gang of lies please sack this incompetent coach now.
Full commitment means, no more Asamoah Gyan, Derek Boateng and the present so called technical team.
They should be replaced with majority local players or new faces hungry to defend the flag of Ghana. In addition they should add Sillas Tetteh and Kuuku Dadzie to strengthen the tactical and defensive abilities of the team.
My Ghana Squad
Goalkeepers: Adam Kwarasey (Stromsgodset, Norway) Fatau Dauda (AshantiGold, Ghana), Daniel Agyei (Liberty Professionals, Ghana)
Defenders: John Boye (Stade Rennais, France), Jerry Akaminko (Esksehirspor, Turkey), Isaac Vorsah ( Red Bull Salzburg, Austria), Jonathan Mensah (Evian, France), David Nii Addy (Vitoria, Portugal), Samuel Inkoom (Dnipro, Ukraine on loan to Bastia, France), Daniel Opare ( Standard Liege, Belgium), Harrison Afful (Esperance, Tunisia)
Midfielders: Quincy Owusu-Abeyie (Panathinikos, Greece), Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus, Italy), Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu (Udinese, Italy), Mubarak Wakaso (Espanyol, Spain), Afriyie Acquah (1899 Hoffenheim, Germany), Christian Atsu (Porto, Portugal), Karim Bellarabi (Bayer Leverkusen, Germany), Emmanuel Frimpong (Arsenal, England on loan to Fulham, England)
Forwards: Andre Ayew (Marseilles, France)©, Jordan Ayew (Marseilles, France), Memphis Depay (PSV, Netherlands), Abdul Majeed Waris (Spartak Moscow, Russia)
Starting Line Up:
2 strikers up front Andre on the right and Jordan on the left, Asamoah on the left wing, Owusu-Abeyie on the right, Wakaso ad Agyemang-Badu in the midfield, Boye and Vorsah as center backs, Opare on at left-back and Afful on the right, with Kwarasey in goal