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We are not over-reliant on Wakaso - Ghana coach Appiah

Posted On Monday, 21st January 2013
We are not over-reliant on Wakaso - Ghana coach Appiah

Wakaso's free kicks have been close to perfect for Ghana

By Ameenu Shardow

Coach Akwasi Appiah has downplayed the over reliance on Mubarak Wakaso for effective set pieces for Ghana.

The 22-year-old’s effectiveness with dead-ball situations has been close to perfect for the Black Stars at the 2013 Nations Cup.

The midfielder’s accurate cross from a corner kick turned out to be the perfect assist for Kwadwo Asamoah to get his first Nations Cup goal in the 2-2 draw with DR Congo.

The Espanyol player also troubled the DRC defence all game long with his pin-point kicks and was unlucky not to have gotten onto the score sheet himself on Sunday.

There are however concerns of an over-reliance on the ex AshGold midfielder for set pieces.

But coach Appiah insists there are other players in the team capable of taking up that role as effective as Wakaso.

“Wakaso (Mubarak) has been doing very well with our set pieces,” he said a post-match  press conference on Monday afternoon at the team’s hotel.

“Such kicks, is not easy to find players to take it the way he does it and saying that, we have at least two or three competent people who can also do the same thing.”

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READERS COMMENTS

  1. yopoo says:

    Just keep your mouth shut for once you have drown your first game instead of you picking up your pieces and and move on you keep on giving interviews.

  2. the truth says:

    yo ethipia is during hella better than we did in our game. these guys with 10 man are outplaying zambia. we need to stop the interviews and focus. we are not the favorites! we have a good team but we suck on the field

  3. Zambia is out toilet hole says:

    WHERE ARE THE STUPID ZAMBIANS WHO KEPT MAKING NOISE HERE?HAVE THEY SEEN HOW ONLY TEN MEN ETIOPIANS SWINDLED THEM TODAY?THIS TEAM MAKING PROUD BEING CHAMPIONS?MY FOOT.THEY ARE YET TO MEET NIGERIA AND THE NEXT THEY ARE SHOWN THE EXIT.

  4. bbc says:

    Wakaso is the best player in the team, very effective and creative

  5. GH FUO, THINK BIG!!! says:

    USE HIM AS A LEFT FULL BACK/3, ALONG WITH KISSI BOATENG. USE KASA ON THE 11. IF KASA GETS INJURED OR TIRED, SUB HIM. BRING WAKASSO TO THE 11, AND KISSI TO THE 3.

    AT NO POINT SHOULD AA USE AFFUL AT THE 3. IT IS VERY STUPID AND DREAMY IN MY OPINION.
    ONLY AFFUL, AKAMINKO OR PAINSTIL SHOULD BE USED AT THE RIGHT BACK SPOT. AA TO ME SEEMS LIKE A PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN SUPERSTITION OR SOME TYPE OF DIETY EXISTENCE. HE LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE WHO ISNT SURE OF HIMSELF, MORE LIKE A,PUPPET. I WONT BE SURPRISED TO FIND OUT THAT MAX KONADU IS THE TRUE COACH OF THIS TEAM DOING ALL THE BEHIND THE SCENE WORK. IF THATS THE CASE, THEN AA SHOULD ALLOW MAX TO COACH FROM BEHIND FOR THIS TOURNAMENT. BCOS, TRULY I DONT THINK AA IS CAPABLE. HE LOOKS OVERWHELMED ALREADY….

    COACHING TACTICS!
    GYAN DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE CAPTAIN. GIVE THE CAPTAINSHIP TO BADU!

    if the players were doing wat i have been telling them to do like lifting metal. they would be faster, stronger and would have less
    CATASTROPHIC INJURIES. SO FAR LOOK AT THE STRENGTH OF THE PLAYERS WHO ARE CURRENTLY INJURED IN CAMP..VORSAH, YIADOM, ANNAN..
    THEY ALL DONT LIFT WEIGHTS!
    THE SCIENCE IS THERE TO SUPPORT WAT IM SUGGESTING, BUT WILL AFUOM COACH AA ADVISE THESE GUYS TO DO LIFT METAL SO THEY WONT BE
    SUCEPTIBLE TO CATASTROPHIC INJURIES? NO….IF YOU ARE A PHYSICALLY FIT PLAYER. THE CHANCES OF YOU GETTING INJURED IS LESS.
    YOU ALSO RECUPERATE FASTER FROM YOUR INJURIES AS WELL…MAKAA AKAAA AKAAAA..PPL EVEN INSULT ME ON GHWEB N GHSOCCERNET BCOS THEY
    DONT UNDERSTAND MY POINT OF VIEW.
    HW3, WHEN U LOOK AT BARCELONA. EACH PLAYER ON THE TEAM PLAYS BREAK AND PASS SOCCER. ONLY XABI AND MESSI DRIBBLE OR HOLD UNTO THE BALL.
    EACH PLAYER PLAYS SIMPLE. BREAK AND PASS..2 TOUCHES, 3 AT MOST. THEY MOVE THE BALL BY PLAYING 2 TOUCH. NO PLAYER STANDS IDLE.
    ALL THE PLAYERS R CONSTANTLY MOVIN AS THE PLAYERS MOVE THE BALL IN A TRIANGULAR FASHION WITH THEIR BREAK AND PASS STYLE. ITS ALL MECHANICS.
    BARCELONA WILL NEVER OVERLAP A BALL FROM 7 TO 11..NEVER…
    THEY DO 3 THINGS AT THE SAME TIME: PLAYERS R CONSTANTLY MOVING, PLAYING 2 TOUCHES, MOVING THE BALL IN A TRIANGULAR FASHION.
    THIS MAKES THEIR OPPONENTS VERY FRUSTRATED, TIRED AND CHASING AFTER THE BALL. BEFORE THEIR OPPONENTS ARE AWARE,
    MESSI HAS THE BALL AND IS ALREADY IN THE 18 YARD BOX. IF YOU ARE A DEFENDER AND ARE NOT SMART..BOOM! PENALTY OR MESSI WILL SCORE..SIMPLE!
    I DONT HAVE ANY COACHING BADGES OR CERTIFICATES, BUT I WATCH BARCELONA AND THIS IS SIMPLY WHAT THEY DO. COMMON SENSE BALLIN!
    MAN U, CHELSEA, REAL MADRID ARE ALL TRYING TO COPY BARCELONA’S STYLE OF PLAY, BUT THEY CANT PERFECT IT.
    ITS FUNNY BECAUSE SPAIN PLAYS THE SAME STYLE, AND GUESS WHO BARCELONA AND SPAIN COPIED THIS STYLE FROM? GHANA!
    THEY COPIED THIS STYLE FROM GHANA IN WCUP 2006. THE ONLY THING DIFFERENT FROM BARCELONA, SPAIN AND GH SQUAD 2006
    IS STRIKING AND GOALS SCORING OPTIONS….WE NEED TO PLAY THE 532 FORMATION IN TOURNAMENTS.
    YOU SEE, STRIKERS/attackers win you a match, BUT DEFENDERS win you tournamentS. AA CAN PLAY THE 4321, 442 ETC TO WIN SINGLE GAMES,
    BUT IN A TOURNAMENT LIKE THIS. YOU ONLY HAVE A CHANCE IF YOUR DEFENDERS ARE ON POINT.
    ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND PLAYING WITH A PROFESSIONAL MINDSET IS WAT WILL SET US APART FROM THESE OTHER NATIONS.
    EVIDENTLY, WE CAN SEE THAT EVERYONE CAN PLAY THE GAME. HOWEVER, IF GBSTARS CAN
    1. SHOW ATTENTION TO DETAIL IN PLAYING THE GAME AS EVIDENCE BY THEIR TACTICS AND STRATEGIES
    2. PLAY THE GAME WITH A PROFESSIONAL MINDSET..THAT IS FOLLOWING MY COACHING TACTICS, LIFTIG WEIGHTS
    3. GBSTAR WILL CONTINUE TO DOMINATE OVER ALL COMPETITIORS!

    • Faisal says:

      Your comment is even longer than the news article itself. Hahahaa None of the technical team will read what you are saying even though some of it makes sense and others are just pure rubbish. Like seriously Spain copied Ghana style of play? What kinda dope have u been smoking? hahahaha i like your sense of humor though..hahhaha

    • Smh says:

      This dude jst writing bullshit lyk he ain’t gut nothing better to spend tym on

  6. MUSAH FIFA says:

    my brother your comment is good but is too much, how can somebody get time to read all these? is too much,although i have read all but how many people can get time to read all these?

  7. We should give de Black Stars moral supports n dey will perform better .Ghana 2: 0 Mali





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