Ghana national team coach Kwesi Appiah has denied that the controversial and shameful happenings in their camp on the eve of their important game contributed to their exit in the FIFA World Cup. The Black Stars were eliminated from the tournament after losing 2-1 to Portugal in Brasilia. Ghana needed to win this game to qualify for the last 16 stage as USA lost to Germany in the other game. Hours before this crucial match, the Ghana Football Association sent home two key players Sulley Muntari and Kevin Prince Boateng for disciplinary reasons. However Appiah says this did not affect their performance…
It’s for the first time Ghana has not managed to reach the knockout phase in the World Cup after reaching the second round in their first appearance in Germany 2006 and quarterfinals in South Africa in 2010. Appiah says in the past two editions they had an experienced squad and now they are building a new team…
Appiah says he's 100 per cent sure that the financial and disciplinary problems the national team has faced this week will never happen again and says the decision to release the two players was not taken on the day of the game but a night before…
Appiah has finished with the worst record ever for Ghana in the World Cup finals, having failed to win a single game in the competition. But he’s still positive that he’s going to keep his job and says the off the field issues didn’t affect his preparations…
Having led his team to the Round of 16, Jürgen Klinsmann feels as if the USA are growing with every game and are only just getting started. USA lost their final group game 1-0 to Germany but a superior goal difference saw them finishing higher than Portugal. They will play Belgium in Salvador on Tuesday, Group G was dubbed the group of death and Klinsmann says they felt it…
Klinsmann who won the World Cup title with Germany in Italy in 1990 and coached them during the 2006 World Cup on home soil has more on why there’s a huge different between the group stages and the knockout phase…Journalist: Velile Mbuli