Last Sunday’s Euros 2024 final was the first time two players of Ghanaian descent played in the grand finale of the competition.
Spain’s Nico Williams and England’s Kobbie Mainoo were both eligible to play for Ghana but they chose to play for the country of their birth.
With Williams opening the scoring and lifting the trophy with Spain in their 2-1 over England made him the second Ghanaian to lift the trophy after France legend, Marcel Desailly who won the trophy in 2000.
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Mainoo after losing the trophy has also become the second Ghanaian to fail to win the Euros. The first Ghanaian who failed to lift the trophy was Italy’s Mario Bawuah Balotelli in 2012. Balotelli led the Italian attack but lost 4-0 to Spain at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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The Euros was Mainoo first tournament the 17-year-old Manchester United midfielder while it was Williams’ second tournament as he played in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
-The Post Ghana