Ghana has recorded Africa’s first win at this year’s world cup in South Africa. Asamoah Gyan gave Ghana a well deserved lead in the 84 minute through a well struck penalty. Africa’s other representative, Desert Foxes of Algeria weren’t so lucky. Reminiscent of Robert Green’s howler when England played USA, Algerian goal kepper, Faouzi Chaouchi failed to stop a simple shot from Slovenian captain, Robert Koren. His mistake would cost them dare as a ten man Algerian side lost 0-1 to Slovenia.

Goal Kepper Faouzi looking dejected after conceding a goal from a simple shot

Perhaps the highlight of the day for the continent of Africa is Ghana’s superb performance against a highly tipped Serbian side that featured the likes of Manchester United’s Vidic and Chelsea’s Ivanovic.

Kevin rince Boateng narrowly missed out the man of the match award to Goal scorer A.Gyan.

With a side missing players such as Muntari of Intermilan and Essien of Chelsea, Ghana showed that it could its own against most teams in the tournament. German born Ghanaian Kevin Prince Boateng was a star in the middle of the pack for Ghana as his mazy runs and superb passing caused the Serbian team all evening.
If you could remember we featured a story about Kevin Prince Boateng a while back (Click on link to read story: http://amebor.com/worldcup-brother/)
With Africa’s first win recorded, one hopes this is the sign of better things to come for other African teams in the tournament.

Asamoah Gyan's penalty decided a match Ghana deserved to win

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