{"id":14338,"date":"2011-12-15T15:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/ghana-coach-admits-difficult-decision-over-abeyie-omission\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:36:56","slug":"ghana-coach-admits-difficult-decision-over-abeyie-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/15\/ghana-coach-admits-difficult-decision-over-abeyie-omission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Coach Admits Difficult Decision Over Abeyie Omission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/ghana-coach-admits-difficult-decision-over-abeyie-omission\/quincy-owusu-abeyie-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101132\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Quincy Owusu Abeyie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/c6595b8e0e576c9ec47f1bd7efc68d88fa99.124.69.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quincy Owusu Abeyie has been dropped from Ghana squad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic has admitted the decision to drop winger Quincy Owusu-Abeyie was a very difficult one to take.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Panathinaikos player managed to catch the eyes of the Serbian trainer who personally travelled to see him play in the Greek top flight.<\/p>\n<p>That earned him his recall to the Black Stars after a long layoff.<\/p>\n<p>But Stevanovic ended up dropping the skillful winger for the Africa Cup of Nations finals and says it was a decision which did not come easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuincy is a player I like and I travel to Athens to watch him but sometimes when he stays with us, I don\u2019t know he changes,\u201d Stevanovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana are drawn in Group D alongside Botswana, Guinea and Mali will open its pre-tournament camp in Rustenburg, South Africa on 7 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.mobi\/ghana-coach-stevanovic-does-not-fear-the-sack\/\" rel=\"prev\">Ghana Coach Stevanovic Does Not Fear The Sack<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Quincy Owusu Abeyie has been dropped from Ghana squad Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic has admitted the decision to drop winger Quincy Owusu-Abeyie was a very difficult one to take. 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