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Five things we learned from Ghana's 2-1 defeat to USA

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  • GIDIGBA 6 years ago

    Nonsense! We learnt that in the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.

  • Gord 6 years ago

    why are they making the same mistakes they played with Mexico? Acheampong same mistakes, defense is same careless, Warris is ineffective, goalkeeper not serious. Is this the coach or the players

  • Boomer npp destroyer 6 years ago

    Coach is useless we should have kept Grant

  • AMUZU 6 years ago

    Yaw Acheampong must watch out and be a team player,if he wants to keep his position.PERSONAL GRORY WILL NOT HELP THE TEAM NOT THE COACH.JUST WATCH GERMANY'S SECOND GOAL AGAINST CHILE TODAY,THE COACH WAS NOT ON THE FIELD, TO T ...
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  • Humphrey Mensah. 6 years ago

    Akwasi Appiah's selection sucks. PERIOD.

  • Kwame, USA 6 years ago

    any player who rushes to take a penalty kick usually misses

  • ST. GHFUO, is this the best you can d 6 years ago

    PENALTY, ME MBO BIOM!.......THIS IS WHAT GYAN SAID IN THE POST GAME INTERVIEW....

  • Asempa 6 years ago

    This guy is a useless defender. He's too slow. He can't pass the ball. He can't even position himself properly to receive the ball from the goalie. I would know he isn't ready for the Black Stars if I were the coach. But not ...
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  • ST. GHFUO, is this the best you can d 6 years ago

    SUMAILA UNFIT, WARRIS IS JUST BAD, ACCAM SKILL LEVEL IS NOT HIGH...MOST OF THE DEFENDERS PLAY WITH NO VIM.

  • zizou 6 years ago

    Very genuine assessment sir

  • Truth 6 years ago

    Nicholas Opoku slow? With no positioning sense? Can't pass? Nor b your fault, Rashid Sumaila ass licker. The best central defender complete with everything in Gh is Nicholas Opoku. He's faster than all the central defense, be ...
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  • Observer K 6 years ago

    Really!? The five things we learnt Should be ; KWESI APPIAH URGENTLY NEEDS REFRESHER COURSES AND SEMINARS!!! THE COMPLETE TECHNICAL TEAM (APART FROM MAXWELL KONADU, WHO HAS A HIGHER COACHING CERTIFICATE) SHOULD BE SENT FOR PR ...
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  • Obidoba jk. 6 years ago

    Kwasi Appiah is tactically bankrupt. He needs to read his games well before making the selection or making changes.
    I remember Kwasi Appiah a coach whose team is in a game that is deadlocked and heading towards a penalty sho ...
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  • ST. GHFUO, is this the best you can d 6 years ago

    1. GAME WAS FIXED.
    2. GFA RECEIVED THE GATE PROCEEDS IN RETURN FOR THE LOSS. A DEAL THEY COULDNT REFUSE
    3. GYAN CANT PLAY 90MINUTES. NOT EVEN AGAINST C LEVEL TEAMS LIKE USA N MEXICO
    4.WHERE WAS WINFUL COBBINAH?
    5. AA MUST ...
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  • POW@ JENNIFER LOMOTEY 6 years ago

    It's like an 800 pound gorilla sitting behind a computer with keyboard on it's lap, typing. Pressing any key is good and sensible to him alone.

    Everyday, call Antwi, invite Aboagye, where's Cobbinah? In your face, apply fo ...
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  • Harrison 6 years ago

    Who should send them for refresher courses? They are being paid to do a job, if they are incompetent get some body else. No time to waste tax payers money on morons. On what criteria was AA re-appointed, none. It was that ...
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  • Ghanamc 6 years ago

    G.F.A should do well to engage a coach ; a coach to coach and to bring up a team . Do you call this a national team ? And who is a coach at all ?

  • ROGUE LAWYER 6 years ago

    EVEN JOSE MOURINO; PEP GUADIORA all lost to a game , they dont win every game. so stop those nonsense on coach, coach, coach.
    Akwasi Appiah is our national coach.

    foreign coach issue in this country is over . never again ...
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  • Akash 6 years ago

    I applauded you but if you really want to qualify for EC and win trophies you cannot use that philosophy

  • Akash 6 years ago

    Not educated

  • ROGUE LAWYER 6 years ago

    it is a journey, and if we begin with our own , we shall get there.

    what happened to the blackstar team when the so called over rated Avram grant took over ?
    the team got worsen.

    what we must understand as a country ...
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  • anokwale 6 years ago

    We have to be realistic. We need to build. No need to get to emotional about this.

  • anokwale 6 years ago

    We are all disappointed but we should not over react. These type of matches expose weaknesses and allow the team to prepare for what really matters. AFCON 2019. A sensible fan knows that the key is to qualify for AFCON 201 ...
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  • Frank 6 years ago

    Always learning new things but you neither change nor implement it. Shame on football people.

  • national 6 years ago

    I hope with more of such losses we shall finally take our minds off football and concentrate on more important problems facing the country.

  • zizou 6 years ago

    BRILLIANT FELLOW GHANAIAN. We have serious issues in the country;sanitation, corruption,dishonesty,miseducation. But what most Ghanaians are interested in is BLACK STARS who, ridiculously,still believe they are heavyweights i ...
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  • Akora 6 years ago

    That's the truth.

  • willie 6 years ago

    K.Appiah did not play any professional football duration of his caree,so he doesn't know the value of professional players.There are a lot of Ghanaians players playing abroad to make team B but he prefer to choose our weak l ...
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  • P Djamgbe 6 years ago

    Well said Willie, but if Kwesi Appish doesn't rely on local players how is he doing to make his money - which foreign based player will pay money to be recruited into the national team? By the way, what were you guys expectin ...
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  • Aloys 6 years ago

    Fixed match, we are not stupid

  • Akash 6 years ago

    A fixed match will have to involve everyone on both sides. Why will they take the chance the every single player will not say anything in future? Also what is to gain in fixioa friendly game?

    Bribery of some players is a d ...
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  • Kwame 6 years ago

    Useless, disband the team.

  • Hubert Akrong 6 years ago

    My brother or sister I wish to share my cup of coffee with you. You did a good writing. A side the post is decent, encouraging and Spirit- build. Good work

  • Abdu; 6 years ago

    I said this earlier, Ethopia is no better team to access the quality of the black stars, its one of the weakest team in the world, so defeating them 5-0 don' mean the coach or this new players are better set to go

  • ROGUE LAWYER 6 years ago

    This is the first time i have seen hungriness in fighting to over turn a defeat.
    mental toughness is a key as we want to build a formendable team for the future.

    they lost the game but the display of succer gave the USA A ...
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  • Banana 6 years ago

    I dont understand why ghanaians like to criticize the team anytime the team loses..condemning the players and the tech staff..i totally agree with you even though we lost both games, the mental toughness to score was there.. ...
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  • Bobby 6 years ago

    Why is it called a friendly match?

  • Yaw 6 years ago

    What I learnt is that, this is not Ethiopia

  • Sintim 6 years ago

    GHANA BLACK STARS LOST BOTH FRIENDLIES AFTER WASTING SO MUCH MONEY TO TRAVEL TO THE US. THAT MONEY COULD HAVE BEEN INVESTED IN CREATING AKUFO-ADDO'S 1 DISTRICT 1 FACTORY CAMPAIGN PROMISE.

    OR BETTER STILL, THAT MONEY COULD ...
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  • mayoka 6 years ago

    Kwesi Appiah is just dump. Football has evolved, its more scientific. This village Kwesi Appiah doesn't know anything about modern day soccer. He is still in the past. We are not serious as a nation. If this man is not fired ...
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  • Bobo 6 years ago

    Five things we need to know why we lost to USA.why not Five reasons why we won.Always loosing.Bull shit.

  • CITIZEN KWASI 6 years ago

    I believe you either did not watch the match or you were paid to write this article by the GFA and I believe the later to be true.
    I have told anyone who will listen that Kwesi Appiah is not a coach who is even capable of co ...
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  • Akora 6 years ago

    That's the factual statement

  • Sundiata 6 years ago

    Plenty plenty different fever dey oo.

    Mr Jurgen Low the German national coach took the national team b to the conferd cup in Russia and history is about to happen in Germany today when they come face to face again in ...
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  • Mercy 6 years ago

    Refrain from playing friendlies with the US, they are finding the black starts weak spot and the style of play so that they can win Ghana at any match. It is a trick to study Ghana soccer. They are going to play Ghana friendl ...
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  • nigel 6 years ago

    who told him i want to know since 2010 he don't take penalty so why did he decide to take penalty yesterday??? who told you mtcheewww

  • Tony 6 years ago

    Calm down now, we lost two matches to powerhouses of world football n y'all are here crying foul. At least we learnt 1or 2 things.

  • KG 6 years ago

    I think the goalie did good. He made some good saves.

  • Boomer npp destroyer 6 years ago

    Akwesi Appiah is a useless coach , Ghana will losei big time. Unless 419 idiot

  • Ashitey Bico 6 years ago

    Asamoah behaving like , captainship was his father's property after the substitution instead of him to handover the captainship to Dede , he rather went with the band . rapist like him
    ( i mean last game play here ghana a ...
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  • Akora 6 years ago

    That's an inconvenient truth.

    The coaching job is above his pay grade.

  • Akora 6 years ago

    ....ability. The travelling arrangement was just not up to task

  • Akash 6 years ago

    We go to school and gain higher education for a reason. It allows you to see things logically and act on things by evaluation in possible combinations.

    These guys played soccer, fair enough, but they are illiterates. They ...
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  • Harrison 6 years ago

    AA should not have carried the mantle from the word go!
    1. The was no criteria for his re-appointment. NPP was offering jobs for their cronies.
    2. He is tactically inefficient in reading games and making substitutions.
    3. ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 6 years ago

    We have so-called professional players forming a wall in front of our goalkeeper.....and we leave a gap???

    Exactly where the ball was placed our keeper should have saved it. I wonder if we will ever learn.....We need to b ...
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  • KwameAdu007 6 years ago

    During these games, we learned that Gyan is still our best striker by far. Dwamena and Waris still don't make the grade. While Dwamena has promise, Waris' time may be over.The guy can't finish. Acheampong used his pace well b ...
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  • anokwale 6 years ago

    These games have been a learning experience and now we know what we need. At this point, I think this is the starting line up to qualify for AFCON 2019 and win all the remaining matches of the WC qualifying (whether we qualif ...
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  • save Ghana 6 years ago

    politics has made ndc stupid. just because mahama appointed that thief Avram Grant who failed and was sacked, these NDC evil and criminal minds keep insulting kwesi Appiah because he was appointed during the NPP era. ndc cont ...
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