{"id":414684,"date":"2017-09-05T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T03:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/you-are-a-big-fool-countryman-songo-fires-asamoah-gyan\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T03:00:29","slug":"you-are-a-big-fool-countryman-songo-fires-asamoah-gyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/you-are-a-big-fool-countryman-songo-fires-asamoah-gyan\/","title":{"rendered":"You are a big fool \u2013 Countryman Songo \u2018fires\u2019 Asamoah Gyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Tuesday,  5 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-05<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/49326452.295.jpg\" alt=\"Songo33\" title=\"Songo33\" width=\"295\" height=\"215\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Countryman Songo on &#8216;Fire 4 Fire&#8217;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504580429_704_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Vociferous sports presenter, Patrick Osei Agyemang, popularly known as Countryman Songo has hurled insults at Asamoah Gyan, captain of the senior national team, Black Stars for attributing the team\u2019s lackluster performance against Congo to the players&#8217; lack of desire to win.<\/p>\n<p>Black Stars were given a lifeline by Uganda to get their World Cup qualification campaign back on track but failed after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Congo in Kumasi, Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press after the game, Gyan stated that their inability to win the game and stand a good chance of securing a fourth-successive World Cup appearance was due to the absence of a desire to win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things didn&#8217;t go well as expected and we didn&#8217;t play the way we expected to play like tactically and mentally. I don&#8217;t know what went wrong but I will say the desire wasn&#8217;t there today\u2026  It&#8217;s one of those days that things do not happen. Nobody is to be blamed but it&#8217;s one of those days. I don&#8217;t know what went wrong but I think it&#8217;s one of those days,&#8221; Gyan said.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the statement on his \u2018Fire 4 Fire\u2019 show, Countryman Songo said the comments were infantile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen to yourself. You don\u2019t have the desire? You don\u2019t have the desire; yet, you honored the call-up to play for the country. We spent taxpayers\u2019 money on you, you are leading the team and you say you had no desire to win? You are fools. You are a big fool, so to speak. It is a foolish comment. This is an insult to the nation. The team has lost and this is what you have to say as a captain? You are fools,\u201d Songo, renowned for his humorous and bizarre criticisms of the Ghana Football Association and the Black Stars fumed.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will play Congo in the return leg of the qualifiers on Tuesday while Egypt hosts Uganda in Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars need victory in Congo to have a mathematical chance of bouncing back in the World Cup qualification, especially should Uganda hold Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda remains top of the group with seven points after beating Egypt 1-0 in Thursday\u2019s game. 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