Ghanaians in Europe Feb 8-10/2003

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The performances of Ghanaian players across the leagues in Europe at the weekend: This page is updated throughout the week

AUSTRIA: Still on winter break
BELGIUM: Jupiler League
KFC Lommelse SK celebrated some relief in their struggle against relegation as they won 2-1 against KFC Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen. Kwame Quansah & Anthony Obodai played 90 minutes on the losing side.

CZECH

DENMARK: Superleague

FRANCE
PSG 1-3 Montpellier
Paris-Saint Germain FC also lost at home, slipping to a surprise 3-1 defeat at the hands of Montpellier H?rault SC. Alex Nyarko (PSG) started the game and was substituted in the 79min, with PSG down 1-3.

Bordeaux 0-2 Bastia
SC Bastia continued to press for a UEFA Cup place and moved up to sixth place with a 2-0 win at FC Girondins de Bordeaux. Michael Essien (pictured) gave the away side the lead after 20 minutes, before Lilian Laslandes scored against his former club to secure three important points for Bastia.

GERMANY: Bundesliga
VfL Wolfsburg secured a 2-0 home win over DSC Arminia Bielefeld. Sarpei came on 10 minute to the end of the game

Hansa Rostock 0 Energie Cottbus 0
Llineup for Hansa Rostock Schober; Wimmer, Jakobsson, Hill, Maul;Rydlewicz, Lantz, Adoube (69. di Salvo), Wibran;Arvidsson (80. Salou), Prica

FC Bayern M?nchen 1-1 Hamburger SV
Bayern: O. Kahn - S. Kuffour, R. Kovac, T. Linke, B. Lizarazu - O. Hargreaves, N. Kovac - M. Scholl (90. A. Zickler) - J. Z? Roberto (86. S. Deisler) - C. Pizarro, G. Elber

Akonnor’s Four-Week Count Down Still On

Former Black Stars captain, Charles Akonnor is counting down the days before returning to the pitch. The former Black Stars captain underwent surgery on his knee last month. The VFL Wolfsburg midfielder former Ghanaian captain has missed Bundesliga action since the second week of January.
Doctors confirmed that the Ghanaian was going to stay off the pitch for close to six to eight weeks from the day of the operation.
The former national football team captain, Charles Akunnor last year said it was possible for him to return to the Black Stars team under then Yugoslav coach, Milan Zivadinovic.
Akonnor’s nine-year experience with the Stars came to an abrupt end December 2001 when he was dropped from the African Nation Cup squad.
The decision to drop him was not communicated to him officially but to the press and this pushed the VFL Wolfsburg player into pre-mature international retirement.

GREECE: Hellenic National League
Olympiakos - Iraklis 2-1
Olympiakos: Katergiannakis, Anatolakis, Antzas (48' Amanatidis), Venetidis, Giannakopoulos, Ze Elias, Ziovanni (88' Zetterberg), Karebeu, Patsatzoglou, Djordjevic, Choutos (89' Ofori-Quaye)

IRAKLIS: Chalkias, Milojevic, Katsabis, Murati (70' Haxhi), Gonias, Drougas (88' Kapetanos), Stoltidis, Bachramis (54' Hagan), Nebegleras, Fofonka, Mieciel

OFI - Akratitos 2-0
Kallithea - PAOK 1-2

ISRAEL
Again, Maccabi Tel Aviv showed no character, again they had the chance to go on in to first place and they blew it. Dego played bad, while the rest of the team didn't function either.

In the other side of the track Maccabi Natanya showed all the press which slighted them that they are a great team. Reoven Atar never ends, Ishmael Addo is a wonderful striker and the new Ghanaian Lokam who entered into the game in the 55th minute with Guy Tzarfati, turned the match around.

The Natanya concert started in the 70th minute, the composer was Reoven Atar who passed to Abu Siam on the right side and crossed a great ball into the box and the man on the cello, Ishmael Addo was there and with his chest made it 1-0.

Natanya's concert continued with the march, in the 84th minute Maccabi Tel Aviv's injured keeper couldn't strike the ball well so it went to the bassist, Zbiti who passed to the violinist, Lobarski who passed it back to Zbiti, Zbiti smashed a wonderful volley straight into the net, 2-0.

2 minutes before the end came the epilogue, the trumpeter, Guy Tzarfati, got the ball from the Ghanaian saxophonist, Lokam and he lifted the ball over Maccabi Tel Aviv's keeper, into the net, 3-0!

Maccabi Natanya: Peshko; Ozan, Geman, Shelach, Boaron; Vasihon, Tayar (Tzarfati 48'), Gazal (Lokman 55'), Atar; Addo (Zbiti 77'), Lobarski.

ITALY: Seria A
Chievo earned a useful 0-0 draw at Brescia to keep their hopes of a Uefa Cup spot alive. John Mensah came on as a substitute. Stephen Appiah did not play

Udinese 2-1 Piacenza
(3-4-2-1): De Sanctis, Bertotto, Sensini, Sottil, Alberto (42' st Muntari), Pinzi, Pizarro, Manfredini (32' st Gemiti), Warley (15' st Rossitto), Muzzi, Jankulovski.

NETHERLANDS

NORWAY: Tippeligaen
Viking club in the Norwegian league have terminated the contract of Ghanaian player, Abdul Karim for indiscipline. The Ghanaian player is reported to have overstayed his holiday break during Christmas last year as the 22year-old Karim turned up 17 days late for training with the Stavanger club after departing for Accra before Christmas.

PORTUGAL

ROMANIA

RUSSIA

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

TURKEY
Ankarag?c? 0-0 Fenerbah?e
Fenerbahce were surprisingly held 0-0 by midtable Ankaragucu and in the process have fallen even further off the lead and are now in danger of losing out on a Champions' League spot as well. Fenerbahce are now fourth but are a distant eleven points off the pace, while Ankaragucu are ninth place on 24 points.
Ankarag?c?: Zafer ?zg?ltekin, Stephen Baidoo, G?kmen Barış, Hakan Kutlu, Adem Dursun, Hakan Keleş, Yılmaz ?zlem, Reinaldo Vicente Sim?o (90 İhsan Burak ?zsara?), ?mit Ozan Kazmaz (88 Mehmet T?rkmehmet), Augustine Ahinful, H?seyin Kartal (80 Levent Kartop)