[ 2011-11-29 ]

Some of the players aboard a bus

Liberia amputee football team dare Ghana
Some of the players aboard a bus

President of the Liberian amputee football team
Cooper Mervin Gutah has called the bluff of Ghana
ahead of next year’s tourney.

The Lone Star team beat hosts Ghana 3-2 on
penalties to win the 2011 Cup of African Nations
for Amputee Football (CANAF) at the Accra Sports
Stadium on Saturday.

Well, this is their second consecutive win after
emerging victors last year.

They attribute the victories to God so at the
weekend they visited the Gospel Ambassadors Church
at Lapaz here in Accra for a thanks-giving
service.

President Mervin Gutah said his team will hold on
to the cup for the next four years before handing
it over to another country.

“If Ghana say they are angry, they are only
angry with themselves because they have to train
more if they want the championship from me,”
Mervin Gutah told Joy News’ Fiifi Koomson.

“I’m always prepared. One good thing is that I
believe in God, except when I feel like giving in
to them. But when I don’t feel like giving it to
them I don’t think they can ever receive it from
me.”

“My boys are trained, basically every time when
we are getting ready for a tournament,” he
added.

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Head Pastor of the Gospel Ambassadors’ Church,
Reverend Kennedy Bentum advised the boys to work
hard to bring glory to their country.

“Remember that you are a source of hope for
other people who are in your situation so keep it
up and then work and then go and be ambassadors of
your country. And then with what you are doing I
believe that you’ll bring peace to Liberia,”
he said.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is said
to be preparing to give the team a red-carpet
treatment when they arrive in Liberia on Tuesday

Source - MyjoyOnline

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