Uruguay’s press officer has succeeded. The presence of Luis Suarez at a press conference ahead of the reunion between Celeste and Ghana assured the striker of being questioned about his rescue made twelve years earlier. His beaten goalkeeper, the ex-Liverpool striker had released a voluntary hand to stop a Ghanaian shot. Expelled, he had exulted following the missed penalty of Asamoah Gyan before Uruguay won on penalties.
“I’m not going to apologize today for taking the ball out of my hand (that day), and then it was the Ghanaian player who missed the penalty, not me,” Suarez said on Thursday. who had been erected as a hero in his country for his craftiness. Icon in Uruguay and pariah in Ghana. The former Barca player had destroyed the Black Stars dream and time hasn’t brought any regrets to him.
“You can’t keep dwelling on it,” he added, insensitive to the Ghanaian pain. The backlash could be brutal as Uruguay are bottom of Group H, two points behind the Black Stars, second with three units.
Like his former executioner, Captain André Ayew does not want to look back too much. “Everyone felt bad (in 2010), but I just want to take the next step,” he said. I don’t look back, I don’t want to focus on the past. If coach Otto Addo did not dwell on the subject either, Ghanaian parliamentarian Collins Adomako-Mensah was more eloquent. “We have never forgiven Suarez,” he told AFP. He should expect sparks from our boys. Just as we cried twelve years ago, he will cry on Friday. »
