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Scientific Playa said:
Ghana’s Loss To Portugal – The Inside Story: Many Ghanaians Were Supporting Portugal Against Ghanaian National Team
Posted: Jun, 26 2014, 5:06PM
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Ghana’s Black Stars are finally out of the FIFA World Cup following a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Portugal. The team’s exit however does not seem to carry the usual disappointment it normally does when they come crashing out of a tournament. According to Bright Kankam Boadu, a respected Ghanaian sports journalist, some Ghanaians were actually rooting for the Portuguese team during the game.

“You’ll be very much surprised to learn that there were a lot of Ghanaians who were supporting Portugal to win because of what was happening at the camp”

Mr. Kankam Boadu says this is as a result of a myriad of factors, chief among them the incident in the Black Stars camp that saw the repelling of Sulley Ali Muntari and Kevin Prince Boateng as well as the players insistence to be paid $100,000 each before honoring the final Group G game against Portugal.

The team was bedeviled with a series of problems starting with a report by the UK newspaper, Daily Telegraph purporting that the FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi and some other officials were involved in an abortive deal to fix matches in which the Black Stars were to play. Following that, there was an incident where the players boycotted training and refused to board the flight to Brasilia to play the game against Portugal unless they were paid an appearance fee of $100,000 in hard cash. It took the intervention of President John Mahama and a subsequent airlifting of $3million to Brazil to pay the players for them to honor the game. According to Kankam Boadu, this is what really infuriated Ghanaians to withdraw their support for the Black Stars.

“Most Ghanaians are very angry with the team and I’m sure if the team should touch down in Ghana, it would probably take the intervention of the military or the police to stop them” he said.

Kankam-Boadu said at a time when Polytechnic lecturers are on strike and utility tarrifs are about to be increased, Ghanaians found it unacceptable that the team should hold the nation to ransom. “I’m sure you read about it, you’ve heard about it; the kind of hardships that Ghanaians are going through, the energy crisis, jobs and all the things and people are wondering players who are supposed to play because of the flag are demanding monies to be paid to them before they don the national colors”. He said Ghanaians saw this attitude as unpatriotic and thus decided to withdraw their support from the team.

Kankam Boadu who was in the Black Stars camp in Brazil at a point also added that the team did not play well because they had other things apart from football on their minds.

He refuted the notion making the rounds that the players had not been paid their bonuses, leading to them staging the strike. He said they had actually been paid all their bonuses but they had demanded an appearance fee of $100,000 each instead of the $75,000 promised them by the government and the FA. “The players have been paid every single bonus they are entitled to… the players had demanded that they should be given $100,000 each as appearance fees for playing at the World Cup. The government of Ghana decided that it was too much because the country had a lot of challenges at this very moment.” He said the government offered $75,000 but the players refused the amount and stuck to their guns to boycott the game until the president stepped in and authorized the payment of $100,000 to each player.

He also attributed the Black Stars loss to a serious lack of discipline. “The leadership of the team has totally lost control.” he said, noting that he observed the players refusing to adhere to camp rules, having their wives and girlfriends around and even nightclubbing while in camp.
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not believable to me. sounds like propaganda against the players by politticians. :comeon:@supporting portugal.
 
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You must be trolling. They have like 15 players out of 23 that were born and raised in France.

Was that H group the weakest? S. Korea and Russia were trash. Capello being paid 11M$ to make his team play like shyt and then complaining about referees and laser pointers :mjlol:
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They still got them algerian genes tho...just need the proper environment to nurture them :jawalrus:
 
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http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/140627_DiRupo_Obama



"Hey Barack Obama, you want to bet for a couple of beers?"
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Fri 27/06/2014 - 13:06 Michael Torfs The outgoing Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, impressed by 3 successive wins of the Belgian national football team at the World Cup, is confident the Red Devils can come out on top against the United States as well. He has challenged the American president Barack Obama after Belgium beat South-Korea on Thursday night. At stake are a couple of Belgian beers. Belgium are playing Team USA next Tuesday at 10pm CET in Salvador. It is not clear whether Obama has accepted the challenge.


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Maradona likens Luis Suárez biting ban to being sent to ‘Guantánamo’

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“The Fifa sanction is shameful, they have no sensitivity towards the fans, they might as well handcuff him and throw him in Guantanamo,” said Maradona, who during the programme wore a t-shirt bearing the message ‘Luis, we are with you’.

“The sanction on Luis is a way of punishing Uruguayan clubs for asking Conmebol for a fairer share of money. It hurts that they have cut short the career of a lad who is a winner. It’s an excessive suspension, Fifa cannot talk about morals to anyone.”

The former Barcelona, Napoli and Boca Juniors forward added: “Suárez didn’t kill anyone. This is an unjust punishment, the act of an incredible mafia.”

“We feel that this is an assault on the poor because this gang will never forgive him because he never went to university, he isn’t educated, he grew up on the field, and he is a natural rebel and expresses his anger naturally,” said the president.

Maradona added in agreement: “In this World Cup there have been much greater incidents than Suárez’s on Chiellini.":leon:

Mujica responded: “There’s no doubt about that, because we have seen all the games and this is a different punishment. This is the most indignant punishment.

“Here they add everything together but the boy really shouldn’t be blamed for his reaction. It’s a match and these things happen and then there’s no need to look into every incident, because if we did that in every game we’d be playing five-a-side.”
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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/27/maradona-luis-suarez-biting-ban-guantanamo
 
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I.AM.PIFF said:
Ghana had very poor finishing during the group stages. They were the 2nd team with most shots behind Frannce and only scored 5 on 59 attempts, that's a goal for nearly every 12 attempts. If they had decent finishing, they'd be looking forward to their R16 game.

Colombia scored 9 on 36 attempts, a goal for every 4 shots. Best efficiency followed by Algeria scoring 6 on 26, or a goal every 4.33 attempts.
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I noticed that when the game was getting away from them they started launching shots at goal randomly even when an extra pass could have put them in a better position. Against Portugal they created good ones but once they went behind a couple of their guys just started shooting randomly.
 
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ThaRealness said:
I gotta say.. it would have been nice if more elite teams made it through. I was rooting for Italy man... the Italians are cool in my book. uruguay is basically dead weight now that they lost Suarez. what a shame :beli:
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wtf!? most of the elite teams did make it through, as expected. the only real shock is Spain out early.
 
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