The 21 year old Benfica player lit up the tournament with his fantastic performances in midfield through out  the competition.

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Enzo was on target against Mexico in the group stages and was a constant name in the argentine team that went head to lift the trophy.

He replaced Leandro Parades in the starting line up after his fantastic performances.

Enzo is rumoured to be on the radar if many top European clubs including Liverpool.

The best young player award was introduced in 2006 and has seen players like Pogba, Mbappe and Thomas Muller winning it.

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France lost the final against Argentina on penalties after a heavily contested natch which lasted 120 minutes.

Mbappe scored three goals in the final which brought his goal tally to 8 goals in the tournament.

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He beat fellow PSG teammate Lionel Messi to the award. Messi scored a brace on the final to finsh with 7 goals.

Mbappe is the first French man to win the award after it was introduced .

He is the fifth ever player to score in multiple World Cup finals and also the second ever to score in back-to back finals.

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In probably the wildest final ever in the 92-year history of the World Cup, Argentina urged over France to clinch their first World Cup in 36 years.

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In a matter of six minutes, Giorgen de Arrascaeta scored to set the South Americans on the brink of qualification only to be denied by South Korea who beat Portugal in the other simultaneous game.



Speaking to FIFA+ after the game, Amartey, who couldn’t hide his disappointment at the loss opined that Ayew’s missed penalty had a daunting effect on the boys. 

“It changed the game. If we score, we would go ahead of them but when he missed the penalty, they got their energy back…Our levels dropped. An early goal is most important and if we had scored they would have gone down.” he told FIFA+

Amartey played all 3 group games for Ghana, which saw them place last in Group H, which had Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay.

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The Ghana Football Association is extremely grateful to the government, the Ghanaian people, the football family, corporate Ghana, our esteemed sponsors and supporters for their unflinching, unwavering and unalloyed support during the Black Stars FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 campaign.



We regret our inability to progress to the knockout phase of the competition and offer our profound apologies to the government, the people of Ghana and all stakeholders across the globe.

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We believe that valuable lessons have been learnt from our qualification and participation in the tournament and aim to continue with the positives going into the future.

The Ghana Football Association would in due course inform all stakeholders about any further developments concerning the Black Stars.

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“I always said if we qualified for the World Cup I’d resign afterwards, even if we were world champions,” he after Ghana lost 2-0 to Uruguay on Friday.



The 47-year-old was initial appointed on interim basis in February to replace sacked Milovan Rajevac, but got his contract extended after guiding Ghana to qualify for the World Cup.

He added, “my family see our future in Germany.

“Football is beautiful, sometimes it is ugly. It is ugly for us today. We have to learn and I’m very sure we will learn from this in the future.”

Ghana beat South Korea in between defeats by Portugal and Uruguay – in Addo’s final game – to finish bottom of Group H.

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Friday 2nd, December 2022, Ghana will be at it again in its ultimate group fixture against familiar foes, Uruguay. This is a South American side that denied, Ghana, a place in the semi-finals courtesy of Luis Suarez’s handball in the last minute of regulation time, which saw hearts broken and shattered in South Africa in 2010. 

In the game against South Korea, things could have gone south, if we hadn’t switched up our performances in the dying embers of the game to bask in that victory. 



I took time to enumerate a few pointers that could help us secure qualification against Uruguay on Friday. 

To start with, I need to pat coach Otto Addo and his technical team on the back for how they set up the side to play against the Koreans, the level of fluidity, creativity, and sheer confidence that the boys displayed in that first half was clearly no fluke, which culminated in the aiding the team to race to a 2-0 goals lead in the first half. On the back of losing to Portugal, it was clear, they had learnt their lessons, I for one clamored for the sacrifice of the 3 centre back pairings to make a room full an attacking force in midfield or a Wideman to create width and engineer crosses into the box for our lone forward Inaki Williams, who had crumbs to feed from the middle and full-back options.  

I think a player in the model of Mohammed Kudus should be the focal point of our attack, how do you have a talent in his capacity and fail to get the best out of him, it’s just unheard of, a lot of countries make the most of the talented players, in the end, you are assured of goals and assists, which translates into wins for the team, bragging rights and happiness for the fans at large. Kudus’ talent can’t be underestimated and he’s shown that on successive occasions, I think the technical team should map up a strategy to bring the best out of the young bull. It’s no fluke that, he’s earned the feat as the first Ghanaian player to score a brace in the FIFA World Cup and has attracted admirers in Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester United, and OGC Nice, France. 



Another player that divides opinions is Thomas Partey of Arsenal, some section feel he doesn’t give off his best in BlackStars colors but I feel that criticism on the midfield anchor is a little bit on the stretch. Comparatively to the club side, he mostly sits deep, moves at will, power, pace and sets the team in motion for attacks, his defensive abilities in breaking the lines, and tackles is also worth pointing out but with Ghana, he’s mostly deployed in an advanced position with the idea that he can support the attack, assist and score occasional belters but how do you get him to thrive without affecting the shape and balance of the team. Personally, we need to play him in a more suitable role where he can purposely influence and impact games. 

In the modern game, teams have the tendency of picking up wins from losing positions and vice versa, our last game against South Korea having posted a 2-0 first-half lead, you could see that complacency crept into the minds of the boys, who lazily conceded, two goals within a 3-minute interval, all from headers, a worrying sight which should be properly worked in training to prevent the team from conceding goals of such caliber in our last game to the Sky Blues. 



Finally, we have our future in our hands against Uruguay, one thing that needs to be eschewed is the rationale for revenge. It’s something that has to be completely erased from the minds of the playing body and Ghanaians at large. The mantra should be geared towards securing qualification to the second round from Group H. I know it’s not beyond our boys to do the needful against an Uruguayan side that are winless in two games, having failed to score a goal in over 180 minutes of football action in Qatar. They will come to this game as wounded lions with the intention of winning which would dampen the hopes of Ghanaians. 

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According to Partey, he is only following the head coach’s instructions on the field despite requests numerous suggestions by Ghanaians to replicate his club form on the international stage for the Black Stars in the ongoing FIFA World Cup.



Speaking ahead off, the clash against Uruguay, the Arsenal star is unperturbed by the high expectations placed on him but claims he is executing his mandate as a player based on instructions by Coach Otto Addo.

 “Most people will surely expect more from me, but we are playing as a team,” he told the media during the press conference ahead of Ghana’s game against Uruguay.

“I listen to the coach and look to do what he has asked me to correctly so that he will be happy.

“In the end you know you can do something better, but you need to stick to what the team wants and not the individual, I am doing my best,” he added.

Partey is expected to be an integral figure for the BlackStars as they face off with familiar foes Uruguay at the Al Janoub Stadium on Friday, December 2 for one of two slots to the second round of the ongoing FIFA World Cup. 

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Southampton defender scrapped in Ghana’s first in a goal mouth melee, his first-ever World Cup goal before minutes later, Kudus added the second, his first on the day. 

In what looked as a comfortable lead for the BlackStars heading out of the break, they interestingly conceded two goals in three minutes from Cho Guesung, which set a premise for a reverting half hour finish. 

Gideon Mensah making his debut in national colours for the BlackStars on the biggest stage sent in a cross which evaded Bilbao foward, Inaki WIlliams but not the poster boy, Kudus, who slotted home his second, the country’s third to down Korean hearts. 



Coach Otto Addo rang triple substitution, Andre Ayew, Jordan Ayew and Tariq Lamptey for Dennis Odoi, Daniel Kofi-Kyereh and Kamaldeen Sulemana, who played their bits to protect Ghana’s slender lead. 

Ghana will hope to pick all 3 points or a draw against Uruguay in their last game to secure qualifications to the next round of the tournament.

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The player has released a statement and revealed he was not allowed into the camp to help Cameroon and denies any disrespect towards the national team.

Official statement pic.twitter.com/0ouCs5CBWQ

— Andre Onana (@AndreyOnana) November 29, 2022

Cameroon grabbed their first point in the World Cup following their 3-3 draw against Serbia and will play their final group game against Brazil.

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