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Sports News of Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Source: ghanasoccernet.com

Brimah vs Kwarasey: the battle of the titans for the post

Adam Kwarasey Adam Kwarasey

Since the 2006 African Cup Of Nation held in Egypt, Ghana has consistently qualified for all the Africa Cup of Nation tournaments, reaching the semis on all occasions and twice in the final.

Of this competitions, Ghana has seen the likes of Sammy Adjei, Richard Kingston , Kwarasey, Fatau Dauda and Razak Braimah all showing their goalkeeping prowess in the post for Ghana.

With the four times nations cup champions hoping to increase their Six points to nine. The talk over who manns the post for Ghana against Mozambique leaves much to be desired.

Is it about experience or form guide? The technical team are in the best position to determine this .

His departure from Norwegian league where he emerged as one of the best shot-stoppers before joining the Major League Soccer has not had any negative effect on his performance and footballing career. Adam Kwarasey seems to be arguably the best shot-stoppers in the American league with lots of clean sheets to his credit.

The last time Kwarasey manned the post for Ghana was in the 2014 World Cup where he conceded two goals against the American.

Since then, Kwarasey has been missing in action for the Black Stars due to what the Norwegian-born Ghanaian goalkeeper referred to as favouritism and inexperience on the path of the goalkeeper's trainer of the Black Stars.

Unfortunately Kwarasay's replacement and the captain of Local premiership side AshGold Fatau Dauda did little to maintain his number one position .

Losing his position to Spanish base goalie Razak Braimah. Razak has been in superb shape for his second tier side Cordoba. Playing actively this season with some scintillating performance for his club in Europe also means he is also up for the challenge. Now Avram Grant and goalkeepers' trainer Nassam Yakubu must decide.

Below are the three goalkeepers invited by coach Avram Grant

Goalkeepers: Razak Braimah (Cordoba, Spain), Adam Kwarasey(Portland Timbers, USA), Richard Ofori (Wa All Stars )