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Suarez’ ‘Hand of God’: Black Stars fans yet to recover from World Cup heartbreak 10 years on
Jul 2, 2020
Today marks exactly a decade since the Black Stars of Ghana was prevented from reaching the semi-final stage of the first World Cup hosted on African soil.
The reasons were an unlikely handball and a missed penalty. Many Ghanaian hearts were shuttered and many lost interest in the Stars.
It was an eruption of noise at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, packed with Africans with few pockets of Uruguayans as vuvuzela sounds filled the air.
Back home in Ghana, many stayed glued to their television sets and giant screens mounted across the country with high expectation that the Stars would make it to the semi-finals stage.
It was in the last minute of extra-time, when a goal-bound header from Ghana’s Dominic Adiyah was stopped by a deliberate handball – courtesy Luis Suarez.
Ghana’s joy of being awarded a penalty was short-lived as his lead striker Asamoah Gyan popularly known as Baby Jet’s shot struck the bar.
Amos now a student of the Ghana Institute of Journalism was only a 12-years-old at the time of the tournament in 2010. He revisits how he and his family dressed up in their replica Ghana jersey’s as many other Ghanaians as they watched the crucial quarter-final game. He had sleepless nights after the game and it took him days to recover.
“At the time, anytime I tried to sleep I remember some of these things. Since then, I have not really been into Ghana matches,” Amos told Henry Kwesi Badu.
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