Picking the Ghana World Cup squad
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By Macs.football, 11 Dec 2009 Macs.football is a Roar Rookie
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Australia's Harry Kewell takes control of the ball from Ghana's Eric Addo. AAP Image/Dean Lewins
Ghana was the first African team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. They finished on top of Group 3 in African qualifying, which also contained Benin, Mali and Sudan.
This is a possible Ghana squad for the World Cup
First 11
GK. Richard Kingson, Club- Wigan, Age at World Cup (AWC) 31.
RB. John Paintsil, Club- Fulham, (AWC) 28.
CB. Isaac Vorsah, Club- Hoffenheim, (AWC) 21.
CB. John Mensah, Club- Sunderland, (AWC) 27.
LB. Hans Sarpei, Club- Bayer Leverkusen, (AWC) 33.
RW. Laryea Kingston, Club- Hearts, (AWC) 29.
CM. Michael Essien, Club- Chelsea, (AWC) 27.
CM. Sully Muntari, Club- Inter Milan, (AWC) 25.
LM. Kwadwo Asamoah, Club- Udinese, (AWC) 21.
ST. Asamoah Gyan, Club- Stade Rennes, (AWC) 24.
ST. Prince Tagoe, Club- Hoffenheim, (AWC) 23.
Subs
GK. William Amamoo, Club- Vasalunds IF (Swedish 2nd Division), (AWC) 28.
GK. George Owu, Club- El Masry (Egypt), (AWC) 27.
RB. Daniel Opare, Club- Real Madrid Castilla, (AWC) 19.
CB. Samuel Inkoom, Club- FC Basel, (AWC) 20.
CB. Eric Addo, Club- Roda JC, (AWC) 31.
LB. Alfred Arthur, Club- Ashanti Gold (Ghana), (AWC) 23.
Mid. Nana Akwasi Asare, Club- FC Utrecht, (AWC) 23.
CDM. Moussa Narry, Club- Auxerre, (AWC) 24.
CM. Derek Boateng, Club- Getafe, (AWC) 27.
LW. Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Club- Spartak Moscow, (AWC) 24.
ST. Matthew Amoah, Club- NAC Breda, (AWC) 29.
ST. Ransford Osei, Club- FC Twente, (AWC) 19.
Ghana’s main strength (even without Stephen Appiah, who is yet to have played a game with Bologna this season), as already widely mentioned, is the heart of the Ghana midfield.
Ghana’s biggest weakness would appear to be in the goalkeeping ranks.
Probable first choice goalkeeper for Ghana at the World Cup is Richard Kingson, who at the moment is only the third choice at Wigan.
Ghana’s alternatives include William Amamoo, who plays for Swedish second division club Vasalunds IF, or half a dozen other goalkeepers, who play in various leagues across Africa.
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Luke W said | December 11th 2009 @ 7:19am | Report comment
That is quite a solid midfield. It will be interesting to see if Vinne Grella gets a run in the Ghana match, given the pace, power and athleticism of Muntari and Essian. But whoever gets picked needs to have the match of their lives if Australia are to get any joy from the match.
David said | December 11th 2009 @ 9:26am | Report comment
Australias Richard Garcia has started or came o he bench for the last five games for Hull city i reckon he will make the squad any player in he EPL is better then J-league josh
David said | December 11th 2009 @ 9:36am | Report comment
MAN THERE LINE UP DOMINATES OURS! THEy GOT PLAYERS PLAYING FOR REAL MADRID, INTER, BYRAN LAV AND CHELSEA WE GOT PLAYERS IN THE J-LEAGUE, TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE AND HYANDAI A-LEAGUE. THE BEST CLUB WE CAN REPERSENT IN OUR LINE UP IS EVERTON AND NEILL DOESNT EVEN GETA GAME!
Ben of Phnom Penh said | December 11th 2009 @ 12:38pm | Report comment
Don’t panic. Ease your key off the caps lock, there’s a good lad.
Tom said | December 11th 2009 @ 9:47am | Report comment
Tagoe won’t start for Ghana. He’s had major health problems and is unlikely to get any game time for Hoffenheim soon. Plus he hasn’t played for the national team in six months.
Amoah will start. He’s a proven goalscorer. Appiah will start. He’s the captain and a very experienced campaigner.
Macs.football said | December 11th 2009 @ 12:10pm | Report comment
Thanks for that Tom, didn’t know about Tagoe’s health problems.
Macs.football said | December 11th 2009 @ 1:50pm | Report comment
If Tagoe doesn’t make it to the World Cup a possible replacement could be Dominic Adiyiah who plays for Norwegian club Fredrikstad.
Tom said | December 11th 2009 @ 4:41pm | Report comment
Yes, definitely.
Would be great to see a youngster like Adiyiah make the squad. Would certainly provide something exciting off the bench.
He could be a real handful for old hands like Moore and Neill, and just as much for Mertesaker and Metzelder.
Mxjosh said | December 11th 2009 @ 10:21am | Report comment
It hardly dominates ours david. Muntari barely plays for inter, Opare playes for Real Madrid Castilla which is their reserves, Kingson is 3rd choice keeper at Wigan. If you look they also have players who play in Scotland, Switzerland, Holland and Sweden. Theyre good but theyre not that much better than us, and last time we played them we beat them
Gibbo said | December 11th 2009 @ 3:17pm | Report comment
i’d believe your opinion more if it was all in CAPS.
David said | December 11th 2009 @ 4:47pm | Report comment
I hope right we must beat ghana! and draw with germany and serbia to make it past the next round i think we can do it but im just being honest we have some good players but we have no one playing for a super club no Hero at least in 06 Kewell was a liverpool and viduka was wanted by the biggest clubs across the country.
Ghana has got essien (chelsea)
Serbia has Vidic (ManU) and Ivaovic (chelsea)
Germany well there whole teams good
Im just saying players not getting game time in 2div england and our stirker from a league i dont rate the J-league we got our work cut out for us
matty1974 said | December 11th 2009 @ 8:59pm | Report comment
Take Essien out, current injury concerns and a less than perfect disciplinary record make this a distinct possibility, and does their team look significantly better than Australia? I think not, plenty of players in lesser clubs and leagues, just like us. In addition last world cup they played Italy and lost 2-0, we lost 1-0 to Italy. They lost 3-0 to Brazil and we lost 2-0.
In the first round of African qualification, Ghana topped their group on goal difference only, having gained 12 points, the same as Gabon (FIFA ranking 48) and Libya (FIFA ranking 118). Both Gabon and Libya had a win over Ghana in this group.
I think this is the absolute must win game for us. We need to go into the Serbia game needing a draw or a loss to see us through and hope that the Germans do the business elsewhere. Serbia are much the stronger side, but if they need to win against us to gt through, I wonder how they will handle the pressure. Despite their impressive qualification and topping the group in front of France, they did not actually manage to beat the French, recording a home draw and a loss in France.