Former President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi says if there was a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, that Luiz Suarez handball would have been adjudged a goal by officials.<\/p>\n Indeed, he indicates that the Assistant Referee was running to the center line until the then captain of the Black Stars went to the centre referee to gesture for a handball incident against the Uruguayan striker.<\/p>\n But for that action by John Mensah, the longest-serving GFA President contends, Ghana would have been in the semi-final and probably won that world cup.<\/p>\n It was heartbreaking for most football fans on the African continent in 2010 as a last-minute Dominic Adiyiah goal-bound header was punched out by Uruguay striker Suarez.<\/p>\n He was red-carded by Portuguese official Olegario Benquerenca and a penalty awarded Ghana.<\/p>\n But striker Asamoah Gyan, who had scored two penalties in the group stage for Ghana, hit the bar despite sending Uruguay\u2019s Fernando Muslera the wrong way.<\/p>\n That crucial quarter-final match ended 1-1 in regular time but the South Americans won 4-2 in the resultant penalty.<\/p>\n Luiz was rewarded by his nation for that singular action.<\/p>\n Speaking on Onua TV\u2018s Maakye on Friday, January 7, Kwesi Nyantakyi said Ghana would have been awarded the goal if John Mensah had not gone to the referee calling for a handball infringement.<\/p>\n He said most of footballing incidents are missed by referees but they use psychology and players\u2019 reactions to call some of the incidents.<\/p>\n He, therefore, commended officials of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) as well as FIFA for introducing VAR to the upcoming nation\u2019s cup.<\/p>\n VAR will be employed for the first time at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, which begins on Sunday in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi Former President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi says if there was a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, that Luiz Suarez handball would have been adjudged a goal by officials. Indeed, he indicates that the Assistant Referee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Former](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/68485778.295.jpg\" "\\"Former")
Former President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n