Penalty kicks have become a bane to our various national teams.
Ghana has barely had any smile whenever it comes to penalties with some people ascribing to the fact that we have been cursed.
The Black Meteors recently at the AFCON U-23 Championship failed at two penalty kick attempts.
First the team lost to Ivory Coast in the semi finals and also lost to South Africa in the third place play off.
According to statistics gathered Ghana has only converted 65% of all penalty kicks we have been involved in.
In order to help address our penalty, woes the new GFA has come up with an innovative idea when the various leagues start on the weekend of 26-28th December 2019.
Ghana FA Executive Committee have agreed with clubs across all the leagues to adopt penalty kicks to award points in case of drawn games in the leagues.
This is one of the many measures to address Ghana's abysmal penalty record in competitions.
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Ghanaians and talk talk. is not this same local boys that becomes foreign boys.
It’s not about local football...how many local players play for the National teams except local Black stars ? They should go and do penalties kicks training for all the bench warmers playing in Europe and elsewhere but get automatic call ups.
will this local players play the kicks. how can a league format play penalties after a drawn game. GFA are jokers !!!! which local player missed the U23 kicks
We need to train our goalkeepers on saving penalties as well. After Daniel Agyei's performance at the 2010 FIFA U20 tournament, our goalkeepers have performed poorly when it comes to penalty kicks, from olele to the present. So let us not concentrate on only the kicks but saving kicks as well. In fact saving kicks is even important than the kick taking. I really miss the era of Robert Mensah, Lante France , Owusu Mensah and co