{"id":27072,"date":"2014-06-24T12:08:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T12:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=27072"},"modified":"2014-06-24T12:25:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T12:25:29","slug":"portugal-more-than-just-ronaldo-kwesi-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/06\/portugal-more-than-just-ronaldo-kwesi-appiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal more than just Ronaldo – Kwesi Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has said that his side will not focus entirely on stopping the threat of Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of their all-important game against Portugal on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Black Stars face Portugal on Thursday needing a win, while hoping Germany and USA do not draw in the other game, to stand any chance of progressing from the group.<\/p>\n
Despite the fact that Ronaldo is yet to score in the tournament and has only two World Cup goals to his name, Appiah concedes that the two-time FIFA Ballon D’or winner, remains a major threat.<\/p>\n
“He’s the best player in the whole world – everyone recognises that.” he said.<\/p>\n
“You can only stop Cristiano Ronaldo, the best player in the world, by working as a team.<\/p>\n
“We can’t let him show what he can do.”<\/p>\n
He, however, maintains that the Portuguese are more than just Ronaldo and have other good players who could hurt the Stars.<\/p>\n
“It’s about teamwork, I don’t believe in the individual,” Appiah added.<\/p>\n
“It’s important that we don’t allow Ronaldo to play his game.<\/p>\n
“We will study their game, but it’s not only him, it’s the whole team.<\/p>\n
“It won’t be easy to reach the round of 16 because we’ve only got one point. It’ll be tough, it is possible.”<\/p>\n
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By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has said that his side will not focus entirely on stopping the threat of Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of their all-important game against Portugal on Thursday. The Black Stars face Portugal on Thursday needing a win, while hoping Germany and USA do not draw in the other game, to stand any chance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":27073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[118,119,115,120,29,3,888],"yoast_head":"\n