Martyr or cheat? A decade later, we’re still frothing at mouth as we argue about that game
The Africa Nations Cup minnows are putting up
a surprising fight and challenging the status quo.
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/ 21 December 2010
Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o was named African Footballer of the Year a record fourth time at the annual Confederation of African Football awards.
Ghana World Cup hero-cum-villain Asamoah Gyan was crowned BBC African Footballer of the Year.
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/ 12 December 2010
Strikers Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto’o and Asamoah Gyan have been named as finalists for Africa’s 2010 player of the year award.
Tottenham’s winless streak was extended with a draw to Sunderland, while Stoke City almost lost their win to Birmingham.
Uruguay claimed their first Soccer World Cup semifinal appearance in 40 years after a 4-2 penalty shootout win over Ghana at Soccer City on Friday.
They may be beset by injury but that has become de rigueur for the Black Stars, writes <b>Mark Gleeson</b>.
Ghana have injury and suspension headaches ahead of a World Cup quarterfinal against Uruguay at Soccer City on Friday.
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/ 7 February 2008
Cameroon are only one step away from a record-equalling fifth Africa Nations Cup title after wrecking Ghana’s party with a 1-0 semifinal win over the hosts in Accra on Thursday. The winners in 1984, 1988, 2000 and 2002 came through a tense affair with Alain Nkong’s second-half strike breaking the gridlock.
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/ 7 February 2008
Hosts Ghana kick off a high-calibre Africa Cup of Nations semifinal programme when they take on Cameroon at Accra’s Ohene Djan stadium on Thursday at 5pm GMT. The Black Stars will have to make do without suspended captain John Mensah, banned for one match after being sent off in Ghana’s 2-1 quarterfinal victory over Nigeria.
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/ 3 February 2008
Junior Agogo scored a late goal on Sunday to lead 10-man Ghana over Nigeria 2-1 and into the Africa Cup of Nations semifinals. Agogo met Sulley Muntari’s cross from the left and sent the ball into the roof of the net in the 83rd minute to send the Black Stars into a showdown with either Cameroon or Tunisia on Thursday.
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/ 28 January 2008
The deluge of goals in the first week at the Africa Cup of Nations has been matched only by the flood of scandals and dramas off the pitch. Ahead of the decisive round of opening round games starting in Accra on Monday, Didier Drogba’s Côte d’Ivoire are the only one of the 16 teams to have secured their place in the quarterfinals.
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/ 27 January 2008
Ghana need only to draw their last Group A game on Monday against Morocco to keep alive their dream of winning the Africa Cup of Nations on home turf. Mathematically it is still possible for Morocco or Guinea to secure the two tickets to the quarterfinals, but two wins out of two have left the Black stars in the strongest position in the group.
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/ 20 January 2008
Portsmouth midfielder Sulley Muntari struck in the last minute to lift hosts Ghana to a 2-1 win against Guinea in the opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations in Accra on Sunday. Ghana’s Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien, given the fair-play award, said: ”It’s a good start for us.”
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/ 19 January 2008
The West African state of Ghana is about to take its place in the international spotlight as hosts of the 26th Africa Cup of Nations. It’s been a bit of a scramble, but the former British colony is all set for the biggest show of its short life, one that promises to upstage even last year’s celebrations to mark 50 years of independence.
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/ 15 October 2007
What South African soccer officials had naively viewed as a formality on Sunday turned into failure as Amaglug-glug went down 3-1 to Ghana’s Black Meteors at the Elwak Stadium in Accra and surrendered all hope of qualifying for next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing.