{"id":363677,"date":"2011-04-03T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/03\/marcel-desailly-confident-of-ghana-growth-in-football\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T14:17:02","slug":"marcel-desailly-confident-of-ghana-growth-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/03\/marcel-desailly-confident-of-ghana-growth-in-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Desailly Confident Of Ghana Growth In Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"97.5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\"><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c5f6d108desailly.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26396\" title=\"Marcel Desailly confident of Ghana growth in football\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c5f6d108desailly.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"French World Cup-winner Marcel Desailly believes Ghana can capitalise on its all-round stability and emerge as one of the top football nations in the world.\" width=\"295\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Desailly believes Ghana can capitalise on its all-round stability and emerge as one of the top football nations in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>French World Cup-winner Marcel Desailly believes Ghana can capitalise on its all-round stability and emerge as one of the top football nations in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday Ghana is the African country that everybody loves,\u201d Desailly told Gulf News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past it was Cameroon when they were doing well on the international stage with the likes of Roger Milla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that Nigeria captured a bit of that attention, but now it looks like it\u2019s time for Ghana to be right there at the top of the football world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Desailly was a guest of Barclays who have brought with them the Barclays Premier League trophy as part of a global tour that started off in Abu Dhabi last week. The trophy will visit Doha (April 14-16) and Riyadh (April 28-30) before heading to Hong Kong for the Barclays Asia Trophy in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is great for Ghana is that things have really combined so well with what is going on in the country,\u201d Desailly said. \u201cAt the political level we have democracy and stability and Ghana is seen as the best country in West Africa at the moment. Making his mark<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the most stable and the development too is steady. All signs are in favour of Ghana and football brings in the exposure and perhaps this is a combination that has raised the interest of the world and this helps develop the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though born in Ghana, Desailly shifted to France where he made his mark as a footballer with clubs such as Nantes and Marseille, before moving on to Italian giants AC Milan and English club Chelsea. But the crowning moment of his career winning the 1998 World Cup with France.<\/p>\n<p>Recently though Desailly has shifted back to his roots setting up the Lizzy Sports Complex in his native Ghana with first class coaching for children. Desailly\u2019s all-in-one complex has a spacious lounge, sports bar, grill, four grass football pitches, changing rooms, a swimming pool, table tennis and a multi-purpose hall for basketball, volleyball and taekwondo. Double culture<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like this idea of double culture, Desailly said. \u201cWhen I was in Europe I relied on my African roots to be strong and survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now that I am in Ghana I am trying to use the pragmatic approach of the Europeans to develop this new project and at the same time I want my kids to live the African experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former French captain now expects the Black Stars to ride this wave of success and do well in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe image is there, the potential is there as also the tactical discipline,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the only thing that I feel is missing a bit is the sense of creativity. We only play counter-attack, we don\u2019t create.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday Egypt are the best team. We are hoping that Ghana get closer to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c5f6d108desailly.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/marcel-desailly-confident-of-ghana-growth-in-football\/\" title=\"Marcel Desailly Confident Of Ghana Growth In Football\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcel Desailly Confident Of Ghana Growth In Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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