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Yesterday as the Brazilian Samba boys dazzled their way through the Japanese team, Ghanaians were more thankful for not making it through the group stages.
Ghana Vs Uruguay wasn’t so much of a revenge after all as we were well beaten by Suarez and Uruguay but then the icing on the cake was that we were both knocked out. Seeing Suarez in tears was very heart warming.😂
Jordan Ayew missed a penalty in our match against Uruguay and there and then we knew it was all over. Spain couldn’t win against South Korea which saw Germany get knocked out.
South Korea as the second placed got paired with Brazil and they had their round of 16 tie yesterday. Right from kick off, Brazil pushed Korea very hard. In the 7th minute their efforts were rewarded by a well taken goal from Vinicius. They then went on to score 4 goals in the game and won 4-1.
As the match was being played, the single phrase from all Ghanaians was “Thank you Jordan. Ghanaians were happy Jordan missed that penalty and saved us from that embarrassment. We all knew Brazil could score us even more 4.
This Brazil team is too good. To be real they did embarrass and toy with us in the friendly game we had with them earlier. I know you have to test yourself against the best but it’s still a surprise we decided a friendly against Brazil was the best way to go.
After Gyan’s miss in 2010 Ghanaians ridiculed him and associated every bad thing in the country to him. It was very bad.
I thought Ayew would inherit this for Gid knows how long but then it looks like Brazil saved him.
My contacts on WhatsApp all had one message’ thank you Ayew. It was even worse on twitter.
Screenshot of my brother’s excitement on WhatsApp.
Screenshot of a friend’s post admiring Brazil play.
On twitter it was even more ridiculous.
Screenshot from twitter
Screenshot from twitter
Screenshot from twitter
Screenshot from twitter
Just by searching “thank you Ayew” on twitter you get to see all these hilarious posts. The comments under such posts are to die for.
Screenshot from twitter
I know there are surprises in football and we could probably have done better than South Korea, but in instances like this we just have to enjoy the comical and banter side of football and forget about what ifs.
It’s great that the Ghanaian players wouldn’t have to go through what Asamoah Gyan did in 2010 and everyone is going to try and move on from it.
Thank you.