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Wanted Aalive: The Mentality that confronts adversity

Wanted Aalive: The Mentality that confronts adversity

But I think that those of us in the stands also failed the Black Stars and the nation.

(1) Both Argentina and Ghana lost their first games (2) Both Argentina and Ghana won their second games (3) Both Argentina Ghana needed to win their final matches to be certain of qualification (4) Early in the game, both Argentina and Ghana had penalties (5) The captains of the two teams stepped up to take the kicks (6) Each captain wore No 10 (7) Each captain is left footed (8) they targeted the same side of the keepers (9) they missed (10) the immediate impact was pain

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With the support, the team rose from the ashes of the penalty miss, Messi rose and engineered the win that Argentina required.

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We need to learn those small steps, those determined steps, those consistent steps, and those time-bound steps.

May today be the first day that we begin those small, determined, consistent and time-bound steps

And while at it, look in the mirror, Ghana

Maybe one of the several things Ghana needs now are some bad-ass mothers who don’t take no crap off of anybody

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