64 Battalion vs Kotoko’s 1983 Side: Which team left a bigger mark on Ghana football?

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  • Kofi Bawuah 23 hours ago

    Albert Asaase was not in the 1983 squad he had left to Ivory Coast then

  • Good 22 hours ago

    No he was there
    He went after

  • Kofi Bawuah 21 hours ago

    No he wasn’t he and Kofi Badu left for Africa Sports in an Ivory Coast .My father Yaw Bawuah was Chairman at the time so I was mostly with the team

  • Labadi Beach 16 hours ago

    Stop all these past glory nonsense. We need to focus on grooming young talents here in Ghana so we can stop importing all these European rejects in the Ghana National team. This foreign bred formula is not yielding any positi ...
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  • Kyen - kyen 11 hours ago

    No Asasse J.It was Yaya Kassum & Joe Tex (Akweitey Quaye no.8) Kyenkyenhene, Ahmed Rockson'Francis Agyemang & Goalkeeper Abeka on the bench

  • Owura Kwadwo 22 hours ago

    Did any member of the 64 Battalion become a first choice for the Black Stars ?

    Did any member of the 64 Battalion win the AFCON before

    Jon team sei

  • mr amin 17 hours ago

    These are the real skilled Ghanaian plyers not the new academy players unskillful so black stars is ................

  • Sunyani Zongo 16 hours ago

    You meant to say "agency" players?

  • Kofi Bawuah 21 hours ago

    Asaase,Kofi Badu and we’re in the 82 squad but not in 83

  • David 20 hours ago

    Yes. They had left the team.

  • David 20 hours ago

    That Hearts 2000 team was something else. They feared nobody. It was pure fluid football. In fact no one even expected them to lose a game. They had won the league 3 tome on a row prior and beating team 4 and 5 goals with imp ...
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  • gold coast champions 20 hours ago

    @ Owura kwadwo, did u say the 64 battalion is a jon team, hahahahahaha, no wonder in 1983 there was no coloured tv, all tv's were black & white & there was no football boots back then so i rest my case.

  • Bimpong 20 hours ago

    Don't mind him. 64 Battalion is the only Ghanaian side to have won an African Super Cup. Guess where they did it? Kumasi Sports Stadium in 2001. Then their junior brothers went back to Kumasi in January 2005 to discipline th ...
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  • Tee Kay 18 hours ago

    During the 1978 Africa Cup Of Nations in played in Ghana, ALL the players, including the Black Stars who featured wore playing boots throughout. And you are saying footballers were not wearing playing boots in 1983. How possi ...
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  • Accra 19 hours ago

    The 64 Battalion is the greatest football squad Ghana has ever produced, and coach Jones Attuquefio, may he rest in perfect peace, the best ever. He was always confident of ensuring defeat for kotoko, regardless of the terrai ...
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  • Stizzy 19 hours ago

    Hearts of Oaks 64 Battalion for me

  • afrifa yamoah nantwi 18 hours ago

    no team in the past or present could ever be compared to the 64 battalions of the mighty oak tree, go & ask why they cancelled the club world cup during that time.

  • BeMan 17 hours ago

    64 Bat were chosen to represent Ghana black stars against Nigeria in World cup qualifiers second encounter they beaten 3 nil. Tear gas made them win the African Champions League. Most Kotoko players in the 82 and 83 played a ...
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  • Abacha 14 hours ago

    Coach Osam Duodu coached the team that lost 3-0 in Port Harcourt against the Super Eagles. It wasn't the 64 Batallion team. That team had Gargo, Kofi Amoako, Isaac Boakye and some of the players from Hearts of Oak. It was pla ...
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  • Nii 13 hours ago

    Yes, you're right. It was rather the return match against Nigeria at the Accra Sports stadium that coach Cecil Attuquayefio used the 64 Battalion. And it was a goalless draw. Nigeria had best players on the continent like Kan ...
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  • Gra 17 hours ago

    Useless comparison. What Accra heart of Oak achieved with the 64 battalion, can any kotoko team come close? Rubbish

  • Dolb 15 hours ago

    64 Battalion. It's a shame they canceled that years world clubs cup competition

  • Razal Sheiba 11 hours ago

    Fabulous Asante Kotoko
    Joseph Carr
    Ernest Appau
    Kwesi Appiah
    Seth Ampadu
    Addae Kyenkyenhene
    Papa Arko
    John Bannerman
    Yahaya Kassim
    Ebo Mends
    Opoku Nti
    Francis Kumi
    When will Kotoko get such a squad
    Others ...
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  • Kotoko 83 team was indeed strong 5 hours ago

    I wonder they couldn't won so much trophies

  • SB 2 hours ago

    The Hearts of Oak 64 BATALLIONS outclassed any Ghanaian club. THEY WERE SIMPLY MARVELOUS AND DOES NOT HAVE EQUALS.