Carl Anka
speaker
1,124 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Carl Anka’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think England underestimated, one, the historical context of playing against Ghana.
So Ghana, a nation that was formerly colonized by English, used to be known as the Gold Coast, the very first game between these two countries.
Ghana wasn't actually a country, it was a colony.
So that was working in the background.
So Ghanaian players, Ghanaian coaching staff, Ghanaian crowd being especially up for playing against England and wanting to prove themselves against England.
Also, another factor is Carlos Quiroz.
Ghana's head coach.
He's most commonly known in England for being Alex Ferguson's assistant manager during a particularly successful stint when they won the Champions League in 2008.
Had a very, very close relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo at that point in time.
But in international football, he is known for making football teams horrendous to watch.
And to play against.
To watch Hernandez to play against.
So he took a rant the last three World Cups.
He has managed Oman, UAE.
He took Egypt to an AFCON final.
And he is what is known as a master of quote-unquote sufferball, where the team...
the team sits deep it's a 4-5-1 it's a 5-4-1 but it's very much we're going to play as Jacques said deep, narrow no one has any fun and if you are going to beat us it's going to be because you slung in more than 30 crosses and maybe the ball bounced oddly so Ghana within I want to say 25 minutes it was very very clear Ghana were not really going to foray past the halfway line and it was very much break us down and if you are going to break us down it's going to take something special and unfortunately England couldn't do that
The first shot on target was 56 minutes, 48 seconds, which is horrendous to watch if you're a neutral or an England fan, but a testament to how Garner set up, which was just no one was going to have fun.
Sanea up against Anthony Gordon out wide was...
quintessential lockdown defending where Gordon was allowed to have fun until the final third and the moment he crossed the final third someone stuck a boot in and I think that was Ghana's game plan for quite some time so Anthony Barry in half time against Croatia mentioned that they want to accelerate play in the 24 yards and they just couldn't because Ghana were very much like well you can accelerate play all you want we're not moving we're not shifting if you're going to get us it's going to be out wide and I think
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