Matthew Amoah hopes to win Ghana recall
Posted On Monday, 13th August 2012
Matthew Amoah being unveiled by Heerenveen
Matthew Amoah hopes his move to Dutch side SC Heerenveen will help him win back a place in the Ghana squad.
The 31-year-old forward had an unsuccessful spell in Turkey last season and has not played for the Black Stars since the 2010 World Cup.
But after returning to Netherlands, Asamoah told BBC Sport: “I hope I haven’t played my last match for Ghana.
“Coach Akwasi Appiah has not called me yet, but I think I can still contribute to this team.”
Amoah made his international debut against Morocco in 2002 and has scored 13 goals in 43 appearances for his country.
He was instrumental in helping Ghana reach their first World Cup finals in 2006 – and qualify again in 2010 – and is rightly proud of those achievements.
“The World Cup 2006 in Germany was in my opinion Ghana’s finest hour in football. It was the first time we attended a World Cup. We won against the Czech Republic, which was one of the top performers in Europe at that time,” he said.
“My role in the team at in 2006 made it much more satisfying than reaching the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 2010. However, I was top scorer for Ghana during the 2010 qualifiers.”
And Amoah believes he could play an important role in the current squad in the qualifiers for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2014 World Cup now that he has returned to the country where he started his professional career.
Since joining Vitesse Arnhem in 1998, Amoah has played in Netherlands for all but three years of his career – a spell in Germany for Borussia Dortmund between 2005 and 2007 and then last summer he joined Turkish side Mersin Idman Yurdu.
That last move proved to be a disaster for the forward and he revealed: “There was a great difference between the time I was introduced in Turkey and right after signing the contract. The atmosphere suddenly changed.
“I played a couple of matches, but it just didn’t feel right anymore. I wanted to leave as quickly as possible.”
But now Asamoah is feeling positive about the future, having signed a two-year deal with SC Heerenveen, who are managed by legendary Netherlands striker Marco van Basten.
“It is a club that has gone sky high over the last decade,” he said. “They’ve become a challenger in the Dutch Eredivisie.
“Marco van Basten being the manager at the club is not the only reason for me to sign with SC Heerenveen. However, he’s a good manager because he is very clear about his vision and rules. You know what to expect.
“He tells me my only role is to score goals whenever given the chance in the starting eleven. Holland is my second home, I grew up here and started my professional career here.”
Although Amoah clearly admires Van Basten he is sure he does not want to emulate the Dutchman’s career path.
“Becoming a manager is not really my call,” he explained. “My future plans are becoming a football scout or starting a football academy. However, you’ll never know were you end up. But I have no worries about that.
“I’ve always been very careful with money and certain investments. Think twice, is my advice. I’ve seen it happening many times in my career; talented and successful African football players, whom I played with, ended up going bankrupt.”
Source: BBC.com
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We don’t need him….
When is Quincy coming back. Memphis Depay (psv eindhoven) and Elvia Manu ( Feyenoord ) are boys Ghana should call. otherwise it’s to late and are they going to play for Holland. This two young boys are really good !!!
Gready player allow the young ones the chance to also play u’r time over
Amoah you are a good player buT GFA are so addicted to some players even if they are clubless in the squad. Look at what they did to Geric Asomoah in the 90s and Germany took him to play for them. Now they say Quincy is indiciplane but they are following Prince Boateng like kids. I wish you all the best and be proud of what you have achieved in Holland. God bless
Thank you. If he had chosen to play for Holland Ghanaians would have cursed him. With all this vast experience and still playing in a best league, without any explanation he has not been called. Amoah is our best striker in qualifying, see how we struggled against Zambia when Gyan was not at his best form. We qualified for previous AFCONS and World Cups with ease, first to qualify with games to spare in 2010. I hope Akwasi Appiah knows what he is doing.
lee get serious, the zambian game taught us one thing and one thing only, we need quality strikers and matthew amoah, well, he’s ok, just a far cry from what we urgently need
Experience is never achieved in a day. Amoah is far better than Adiyia and Jordan. Do you want to tell me that Akwsi Appiah is a better coach than Van Basten? Ghanaians are ungrateful people. All of you thought Black Stars could do without Gyan until we were beaten again by Zambia. Nobody is insulting him now. Goodbye, I will not respond to your post on this issue again.
Amoah we are moving forward not backwards we need a world class #9 and i think Clottey is the right man if we encourage him to work extra hard.
1 on 1 chances,amoah is far better than gyan.i think even drodga n eto O irrespective of their ages r still playin 4 their nations.clottey n de young ones can learn frm amoah wen dey r all in camp.amoah,i got ur back
@lee: are afraid debate your point. There is no need to end it there, especially when you hardly touched on the matter. i never said adhiyah and jordan were better, you could point it out for me if you so wish but unless i was drunk posting, i bet you’ll never find any comment like that from me. I said nothing on experience, just said that he might be good but is a far cry from what we need, what was the difference in goals scored when he was playing for us as compared to now, he’s good but we nned to step up from him. Must we cling to his past laurels to deprive competent strikers cos we might be termed ungrateful if we didn’t? I don’t think so. And we could have done better against zambia had akwasi appiah done a better tactical job and clottey was given a chance instead of adhiyah. That was no excuse to go crying to gyan like wounded puppies and definitely should not be the reason to call upon amoah now.i await your reply on this matter. I want to know your view.
Is the name Amoah or Asamoah? GSN pleaase get it right.