{"id":445407,"date":"2011-06-22T05:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/22\/ghana-suspicion-as-equatorial-guinea-drops-%e2%80%98men%e2%80%99-for-women%e2%80%99s-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T05:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:10:03","slug":"ghana-suspicion-as-equatorial-guinea-drops-men-for-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/22\/ghana-suspicion-as-equatorial-guinea-drops-men-for-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Suspicion As Equatorial Guinea Drops \u2018men\u2019 For Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"81\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-32287\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/ghana-suspicion-as-equatorial-guinea-drops-men-for-womens-world-cup\/simpore\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32287\" title=\"Ghana suspicious as Equatorial Guinea drops 'men' for Women's World Cup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/simpore.jpg\" alt=\"Two key Equatorial Guinea players, Ghana accused of being men at the African Women\u2019s Championship (AWC) in South Africa last year, have been dropped from the country's final squad for the World Cup.\" width=\"455\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salimata Simpore has been accused by Ghana of being a man<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Two key Equatorial Guinea players, Ghana accused of being men at the African Women\u2019s Championship (AWC) in South Africa last year, have been dropped from the country\u2019s final squad for the World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has raised eyebrows over the gender cheating suspicion levelled against Equatorial Guinea as fresh allegations at this week\u2019s tournament in Germany could lead to a gender test.<\/p>\n<p>The Guineans dropped two of their star players \u2013 Salimata and Bilguisa Simpore from their final squad without any explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2019sisters\u2019 were key players for the Guinean side at the 2010 African Women\u2019s Championship in South Africa, but were hit by controversy after they were accused of being men by members of the Ghana side.<\/p>\n<p>Salimata Simpore, Bilguisa Simpore and team captain Genoveva Ayonmang were in 2008 suspected to be boys before the allegation resurfaced last year.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, against Ghana, both Simpore and Ayonmang were looking too strong for their opponents, with the latter\u2019s goal for her team\u2019s second of the game a shot any male goalkeeper could have found difficult stopping.<\/p>\n<p>Black Queens\u2019 captain, Okoe, said no one would make her yield in her belief that Simpore was \u201ca boy playing in a girls\u2019 game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cIt is not as if we are throwing sour grapes just because we have lost. Rather, this is the fact and it is up to the organisers to do something about this. It is not good for African women football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black Queens\u2019 captain Florence Okoe said at the time: \u201cIt is not as if we are throwing sour grapes, just because we have lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, this is the fact and it is up to the organisers to do something about this. It is not good for African women\u2019s football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The allegations have never been proven and CAF have refused to comment on the matter, but question marks remain over the pair\u2019s withdrawal from the tournament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/ghana-suspicion-as-equatorial-guinea-drops-men-for-womens-world-cup\/\" title=\"Ghana Suspicion As Equatorial Guinea Drops \u2018men\u2019 For Women\u2019s World Cup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana Suspicion As Equatorial Guinea Drops \u2018men\u2019 For Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Salimata Simpore has been accused by Ghana of being a man Two key Equatorial Guinea players, Ghana accused of being men at the African Women\u2019s Championship (AWC) in South Africa last year, have been dropped from the country\u2019s final squad for the World Cup. This has raised eyebrows over the gender cheating suspicion levelled against Equatorial Guinea as fresh allegations at this week\u2019s tournament in Germany could lead to a gender test. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":445409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-445407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana Suspicion As Equatorial Guinea Drops \u2018men\u2019 For Women\u2019s World Cup - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/22\/ghana-suspicion-as-equatorial-guinea-drops-men-for-womens-world-cup\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana Suspicion As Equatorial Guinea Drops \u2018men\u2019 For Women\u2019s World Cup - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Salimata Simpore has been accused by Ghana of being a man Two key Equatorial Guinea players, Ghana accused of being men at the African Women\u2019s Championship (AWC) in South Africa last year, have been dropped from the country\u2019s final squad for the World Cup. 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