Afrika

[Weenie Pooh]

Ala liči Thiam na Hadžiju Dioufa, ubilo se. Ne znam šta Lončarević vidi, obojica su crnci koji igraju/igrali su za Senegal?

 

 

[borris_]

Do juce su me uvjeravali da je Alzir jedan od favorita na SP-u a sada gube od ekvatorske gvineje. A protiv Siera Leone nerijeseno.

[*edited by mod]

Koji šaljivdžija te je to uveravao? Lvl raspada atmosfere u timu im je gori nego u našim najgorim danima + nije kao da imaju mastermind selektora. Ok uzeli onaj smešni Arab Cup ali budimo realni.

[borris_]

Pa imali su ipresivan niz od >30 neizgubljenih utakmica.

 

Osvojili su proslu CAN.

 

Imaju dobar rezervoar igraca u francuskoj.

 

Trener je sve to lijepo ukompovao. Mozda nije svjetsko poznato ime (mi ga poznajemo u fr) ali je sve to lijepo ukompovao.

 

Alzirci su kao srbi, poslije nekoliko pobjeda, odmah pocne masta da radi (a kao sto rekoh ovi su ih imali >30)

Edited January 17, 2022 by borris_

[FPLS]

Istorijski gol za Komore, Bencuga ga metnuo Gani 

[MiddleClass]

Ben

 

Boaci

[levi]

Rajevac : (

Dajte hajlatse kad izađu

[Skyhighatrist]

4 minutes ago, levi said:

dajte hajlatse kad izađu

hajlajts

[levi]

istorija za Comorose mada ovim su verovatno ispali i jedni i drugi, samo Kanga ide dalje

[levi]

evo ga i Umar Sadiku startuje za Nigeriju. jeste kombinovan sastav jer su se već plasirali, ali nije mala stvar, ozbiljna reprezentacija. ja sam sve vreme mislio da je on iz neke egzotične afričke zemlje

[levi]

treći iz ove grupe ispao, tako da Comorosi treba da ostave još jednog iza sebe da bi prošli

 

tj trećeg iz grupe gde je Alžir. treba im da Alžir ne pobedi Obalu i da Siera Leone ne pobedi, ako se ne varam™

[Delija67]

Senegal prvi u grupi sa gol razlikom 1:0. Gol su dali Zimbabveu iz penala u 97. minutu.

[Weenie Pooh]

12 minutes ago, Delija67 said:

Senegal prvi u grupi sa gol razlikom 1:0. Gol su dali Zimbabveu iz penala u 97. minutu.

 

Ko se ono od evropskih velikana tako provukao kroz grupu jednom prilikom, pa su svi znalački klimali glavom, kao, "Evo sad pale mašinu kad krenu eliminacije i idu do kraja", a oni odmah ispali?  Nešto mi je Francuska na pameti, ali moguće da sam skroz pomešao.

[Delija67]

Italija je '82. prosla grupu sa 3 remija, pa postala prvak sveta. '94. su prosli u grupi sa sve 4 ekipe poravnate, pa dosli do finala.

[Frank Pembleton]

“The entire country is extremely disappointed by the abysmal performance and early exit of the Black Stars,” Mustapha Ussif, Ghana’s minister for youth and sports, said in a statement, in which he summoned the Ghana Football Association (GFA) for an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss “salvaging the performance” of the national team.

Historically speaking, Ghana are one of the most successful footballing nations in Africa; the winners of four Africa Cup of Nations (only Egypt and Cameroon have more), runners-up in the competition a further five times and World Cup quarter-finalists in 2010.

The Black Stars are expected to play a key role in each AFCON tournament for which they qualify. Unfortunately for Milovan Rajevac’s side, this edition instead saw Ghana become something of a laughing stock.

“The entire country is extremely disappointed by the abysmal performance and early exit of the Black Stars,” Mustapha Ussif, Ghana’s minister for youth and sports, said in a statement, in which he summoned the Ghana Football Association (GFA) for an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss “salvaging the performance” of the national team.

A thrilling 3-2 victory for Comoros — a nation with a population of only around 815,000 — on Tuesday created the biggest shock of this year’s tournament so far.

Ghana went into their final group match needing a two-goal victory to be certain of qualification to the knockout stages. They somehow endeavoured to concede within the opening five minutes, lose their captain and best creative talent Andre Ayew to a VAR review and red card by the 26th, and then fall two goals behind shortly after the hour mark.

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Andre Ayew leaves the pitch after his red card against Comoros (Photo: DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP via Getty Images)
A 10-minute rally saw Ghana eventually make it 2-2, only for Ahmed Mogni to score his second of the game in the 85th minute, a dagger in the hearts of Ghanaian football fans.

To give this game its proper context, Comoros are competing in their first AFCON and are currently ranked 132nd in the world. Yet they outplayed, out-thought and outfought one of the bigger teams around to earn this result.

Comoros had not scored in an AFCON game before facing Ghana but their three goals earned them a slim chance of qualifying for the knockouts as one of the four best-ranked third-placed sides. It was a victory that illustrated the joy of the competition, where historical reverence and the form books regularly get thrown out of the window to produce games that can veer between high quality and high farce.

Ghana have never been ranked lower than 89th place in the world but were made to look abject by Amir Abdou’s side. Few expected this Ghana side to win the 2021 tournament, but their combined group-stage efforts of a loss to Morocco, a strange draw against Gabon and this helter-skelter defeat has created their worst AFCON performance of all time. They have scored three goals across three games yet somehow earned two red cards — one of which occurred after full-time when Benjamin Tetteh struck a Gabon player.

To rub salt into the wound, Ghana’s fall coincides with a probable rise of Nigeria — their biggest footballing rivals, who are now flush with dual-heritage talent and promising youngsters. There is a better Ghana team out there to be made, however, if only the GFA could take the proper steps to realise it.

Ajax attacking midfielder Mohammed Kudus would have likely played at AFCON if not for injury. Brighton’s Tariq Lamptey excelled against Chelsea in a 1-1 draw at the same time as Ghana’s defeat and was contacted by the GFA in 2020. This Saturday will likely see Southampton defender Mohammed Salisu feature against Manchester City, a player who accepted a national team call-up in 2019 but has since preferred to focus on his club career.

Ghanaian football fans are now in the strange position where a Nigerian victory in Cameroon could simultaneously be the best and worse thing for them: a deep humiliation that might just cajole the Ghana Football Association (GFA) into action and reform.

This AFCON has highlighted the slow but steady decline of Ghanaian football since a bizarre 2014 World Cup campaign. That ended after the group stage with $3 million (£2.2 million) in cash being flown over to Brazil to pay players before their final game against Portugal, and star players Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng were suspended indefinitely from the squad.


Clint Dempsey scores for the US against Ghana in the group stage of the 2014 World Cup (Photo: Michael Steele/Getty Images)
An AFCON final defeat by Ivory Coast in 2015 papered over some of the cracks, but Ghana have not won the tournament since 1982, and recent controversies and disagreements among the GFA have taken their toll. Kwesi Nyantakyi, former president of the GFA, resigned from his role in 2018 and is serving a 15-year ban from football — having successfully appealed against a life ban from FIFA — having broken bribery and corruption rules.

Rajevac returned for his second stint in charge of the team in September 2021 and has overseen the pragmatic yet effective methods that previously brought success between 2008 and 2010 give way to dour, conservative football. Against Comoros, Ghana’s attacking structure was little more than speculative long-range efforts and the set-piece delivery of Daniel-Kofi Kyereh. Following the defeat, Rajevac dubbed the tournament performance “a learning process” for Ghana football and insisted qualification for the 2022 World Cup was his main priority.

However, Ghana’s path to qualification looks precarious. Entry to the World Cup play-offs was achieved in the most dramatic of circumstances last year, when Daniel Amartey won a penalty to earn victory over South Africa. They will be unseeded for the upcoming draw and could face either Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria or Nigeria for a place in Qatar. These are all opponents who are likely to make the latter stages of this year’s AFCON and would greatly enjoy facing a Ghana side at crisis point.

The Black Stars are more than a decade removed from their World Cup heyday. Given their performance at this year’s AFCON, they may need another decade to get things right again.

(Top photo: DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP via Getty Images)

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