The game produced one of the most dramatic endings on World Cup history, with much controversy surrounding one of the turning points with a then 23 year old Suarez at the center of proceedings.
Ghana were on the average of becoming the first African team to reach the semifinals of the World Cup, but an incident involving Suarez preteded then from achieving that objective.
After that fascinating 90 minutes of action, the game was extended into an extra time after a 1-1 draw.
The game almost heading to penalties, Luis Suarez prevented Dominic Adiyah’s header from entering the net with his arms and Ghana had a penalty to make history. However, Baby Jet failed to convert the penalty to cement the victory for the Africans after his kick was denied by the wood work, In a picture, Stephen Appiah appeared to be furiously blaming Gyan after he squandered the opportunity.
But in an interview with peace FM, the all time leading top scorer of the Black Stars disclosed that Appiah vadvised him not to ever think to abstain from taking the post match penalty shootout.
“At the time he was motivating. me and that was after the penalty.
I was very worried going into the post match penalty shootout but he came and told me that he knows what I can do.
I was the best penalty taker and it was a mistake. I should not be thinking that I won’t go play the penalty.
“He was telling me not to think that I won’t play but that caption (that picture) came with a lot of opinions.
In Ghana they like spreading negatives and everyone has some thing to say when anything happens.
They were saying he warned me not to play and they even said Appiah stated “have you seen what you have done”.
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