Revelation: "Spiritual Assistance" Is The Secret Behind Ghana"s 1995 FIFA U17 Glory - Awudu Isaaka

Spirituality  Does Exist In Football – Awudu Issaka

Mallam Issaka Salia’s revelation alleging Rashid Sumaila is responsible for Jerry Akaminko’s career threatening injury pre-world cup 2014 in a friendly match against Netherlands has opened up closets of spiritual assistance seeked by heads of the national teams and its players.

 

Many have accused players called into the various national teams of consulting ‘black magic’ to help their course of retaining their spot when they are called up into the teams. Its been difficult to prove as many players refuse to comment on but in the long run do when things begin to fall apart in their life post footballing career.

 

Awudu Issaka, nicknamed the dribbling magician was a prominent member of the U17 team that brought Ghana glory in 1995 but his career that many predicted will be a fruitful and successful one didn’t go as planned.

In an interview with Kumasi based radio, Boss fm 93.7, Issaka revealed the secret behind their success story in Ecuador and why they were confident before the tournament even commenced.

“In 1995 before we travelled to Ecuador for the FIFA U-17 world cup, we visited a man of God named, Servant Isaac at Akim-Oda who fore-casted that we’ll win the tournament. He then cursed his Church to collapse should we return to Ghana without the FIFA U17 world cup trophy and this statement meant he (the man of God) knew what had seen,” he said.

 

“Upon arrival in Ghana with the trophy the playing body especially the players had deals outside and as a result the praise that he was expecting from us was absent and from thence he cursed the team and I made to believe it is a contributing factor to the current decline of the national U-17,” he added.

 

Ghana is yet to replicate the success story in 1991 and 1995.

Revelation: "Spiritual Assistance" Is The Secret Behind Ghana"s 1995 FIFA U17 Glory - Awudu Isaaka

Ghanaian Society Prevent Players From Reaching Their Potential - Kenichi

Accra Hearts of Oak head coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi has said that Ghana has lot of talents with potential to reach the peak of their career, but the society in which they find themselves has caged that.

Ghana is well known for producing great footballers, right from juvenile to senior football as the country has won two U-17 World titles, one U-20 World cup and a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics Games.

Notable among names who made football fans glue to their seats with dazzling display at the tender age includes: Nii Ordatey Lamptey, who World Pele told the world he is his successor, and Dominic Adiyiah who flashed with the speed of light but dropped like a sack of shea nuts.

However, other players broke the shield at early age of their career and played at the highest players like; Michael Essien, Stephen Appiah, and Sammy Osei Kuffour.

Of late, youngsters who have been touted as players with potential at yet to make the grade among the elites of the game.

And coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi who was a telents development coach before he took up his first major coaching role at Accra Hearts of Oak blames the society for players inability to reach their potential.

“Ghana has many talented players because of the environment,” Kenichi is quoted by Sokka.

“[However] the society is preventing them from developing top talents to be their best during the transition periods from U14 to senior professionals.” He noted.

The former Aspire Academy talents development coach is optimistic that all is not gloomy.

“USA and Japan, or many other countries have different strength and weakness. Having said that, Ghana is an outstanding football country with an outstanding potential.”

Ghanaian Society Prevent Players From Reaching Their Potential - Kenichi