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Sports Characteristics of Thursday, March 28, 2019
Source: thetoughtackle.com
2019-03-28
Ekuban has two goals in his first two games with the Black Stars
On Friday, March 22nd, Callum Hudson-Odoi broke records and allowed the Ghanaians to make their competitive debut as a substitute for the English national team; Three days later, the teenager from Chelsea got his first start, against Montenegro, in a second qualifying match for EURO 2020, by Three 's head coach. Lions, Gareth Southgate.
Seven-year-old Caleb Ekuban has also made his debut on the international scene, particularly for his parents' homeland. He scored a goal, the Ghanaian winner, beating Kenya in qualifying for the 2019 Nations Cup of Nations. Another shot, when Ghana beat Mauritania 3 to 1 during a match Tuesday's friendly, has convinced many people, including Black Stars boss Kwesi Appiah, that the country could have found the scorer to carry his goal burden on the summer night amid a worrying lack of credibility. options.
Ekuban had the most powerful start, certainly, but between him and Hudson-Odoi, many Ghanaians would prefer to have him. Aged 18, this young man is highly rated and is the subject of fierce pursuit by some of the best clubs in Europe, not to mention the fact that he already plays for one of these clubs, the Chelsea of London.
Ekuban, on the other hand, has less noise around him. Already in his mid-twenties, he would probably never have been spoken in the same way as Hudson-Odoi; The Italian is currently on loan in Turkey and before that, in the second division club of England where Marcelo Bielsa, the manager of Leeds United, does not seem to think too much of him.
Hudson-Odoi and Ekuban, respectively, are just the latest additions to two distinct groups of players of Ghanaian origin born and / or raised in the West: those who choose to represent Ghana and those who do not. Hudson-Odoi joins Marcel Desailly, Jerome Boateng, Danny Welbeck and Mario Balotelli; for Ekuban, there are fewer famous companies in Otto Addo, Hans Adu Sarpei, Kwesi Appiah, Kevin-Prince Boateng, et al.
And almost as soon as Ghana loses one of the old-category players – as happened after the new Hudson-Odoi affair – local media and fans attack our team leaders national, reprimanding them for not having given enough in the hunt. The truth, however, is that Ghana would always struggle to surpbad these foreign superpowers, no matter what the motherland would throw at the coveted boys. A thousand phone calls will not turn their heads, any more than Aveyime's rice – not when world champions like England, Italy, the United States, the United States, and the United States. Spain and Germany run the same thing.
More success and improved standards for Ghana's national teams would certainly provide a competitive advantage, but there are very few things that could be done. In the end, it is largely to which country the player identifies with more and how attractive the prospects are. After all, home is the heart – and fortunately, for Ekuban and others like him, Ghana is here: where are the heart and the future.
Admittedly, such experiences have not always been smooth – as shown by FC Barcelona's Boateng, almost 10 years after leaving Germany – but from time to time a jewel shines at every moment.
Ekuban, maybe?
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