Boateng's wife included. "She asked me to take it out of the house. "Suarez's exuberant celebrations on the touchline did not help the mood, then or now. An instantaneous national grief had engulfed the Ghanaian people and here was the man whose foul had caused it, revelling in the mood. It was understandable. It was painful. Uruguay fans later celebrated Suarez's dramatic intervention against Ghana But how significant will it be when Group H reaches its conclusion on Friday? A draw might be enough for Ghana but Uruguay must beat them to have any hope of progressing. Do not bet on there being too many cool heads in Accra but they will be needed in Qatar. "The players there now were not even playing in the 2010 World Cup. The only player there is Andre Ayew.
"You know as a footballer in that situation. I always say that to people. I was talking to my wife and I said that if I were in that situation to help Ghana I would do it because I have to defend my country and I do whatever I have to do to defend my country. "All the fans are talking about revenge, revenge, revenge. But I do not believe in revenge in football. We just have to go there and play our game, stick to our plan, do the right things at the right time and win the game… But the fans have a different opinion to us. " Boateng's wife among them, it seems. Uruguay beat Ghana in the World Cup quarter-final following Luis Suarez's actions Some years later, the rest of the world having long moved on, Boateng was playing for Eibar against Suarez's Barcelona. "After the game I changed my shirt with him, so I brought the shirt home and I put it in the laundry and my wife saw it, " he recalls.
Ghana vs Uruguay: Derek Boateng forgives Luis Suarez for 2010 handball ahead of World Cup grudge match - but wife wants shirt out of the houseThe ball is going in and Ghana are about to become the first African team to reach a World Cup semi-final. There is no way back for Uruguay. Not in the last moments of extra-time. But Luis Suarez is about to change things with one of the most famous handballs in history. That instinctive action provides the delicious backstory to one of football's more unlikely rivalries.
Drafting in Inaki Williams, Mohammed Salisu and Tariq Lamptey has helped. It is asking a lot to expect them to gel quickly. The circumstances were different in 2010. Rather than crashing out of the AFCON, that team had reached the final. Seven of the starting line-up from that game also started in the World Cup quarter-final. "In our time we had a really solid squad.
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"Everyone felt bad (in 2010) but for me I just want to get to the next stage, " the 32-year-old said. "I am not looking back, I don't want to focus on the past. Revenge or not, we would go with the same determination and desire to win because we want to get to the next stage. "Ghana have been involved in two high-scoring games so far, losing 3-2 to Portugal in their opener before beating South Korea by the same scoreline on Monday.
It was historic, the first time Ghana reached the World Cup quarter-finals. "When I saw the draw, Ghana against Uruguay, it was exciting. I will say it will be a payback time to get out from the group. We must beat Uruguay at all costs. "Ex-Ghana striker Kwesi Appiah added: "What they did to us in South Africa was crazy. "It feels like we, and African football, were robbed of an historic journey. It just burned deeper than anything you can imagine. "Laying demons to restAndre Ayew is the sole survivor from Ghana's squad from the 2010 finals, although the current captain did not feature in the last-eight tie against Uruguay.
Asamoah Gyan missed the resulting penalty as his effort clipped the top of the crossbar, and TV cameras captured Suarez, who had been sent off, celebrating that miss gleefully before Uruguay won 4-2 on spot-kicks. That night a cross-continental rivalry was born - with the second chapter set to play out in Qatar's Al Janoub Stadium on Friday (15:00 GMT). The anticipation has been building ever since April, when the two sides were drawn together. "The whole world knows what happened [in 2010], " Gyan, 37, told the BBC World Service.
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He is the only one who went to South Africa. The rest of them, I know they are going to play their normal game and show they can win the game. "I hope we don't think about revenge. I hope we just think about the game. We have an advantage over Uruguay. They have to win, so they will come hard at us.
Uruguay, meanwhile, have four players remaining, with striker Edinson Cavani, goalkeeper Fernando Muslera and Suarez all playing against the Black Stars in Johannesburg, while Diego Godin was an unused substitute. Former Liverpool and Barcelona forward Suarez and Cavani, both 35, and 36-year-old centre-back Godin have all featured for the South Americans in Qatar. With both former players and supporters looking for some form of redemption, results so far at the tournament in Qatar mean Ghana hold the upper hand going into the deciding round of fixtures. The Black Stars know they will get a place in the last 16 - and eliminate Uruguay in the process - if they pick up three points, while a draw could also be enough to progress if South Korea fail to beat Portugal in the other game in Group H.
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"When the draw was made and they saw Uruguay in Ghana's group the only thing that came into mind was revenge. Ghanaians want revenge. "Personally, I just sat back and smiled because I understand how the game goes. "I do not apologise - Suarez on Ghana handballGhana players 'cannot forgive' Suarez 10 years onListen: Ghana vs Uruguay - the World Cup's grudge matchFormer Ghana defender John Paintsil, another member of the side 12 years ago, recalls the support the Black Stars received during the first World Cup finals held in Africa. "Before we played Uruguay, the whole of Africa was with us, " he told BBC Sport Africa. "Even the world was supporting Ghana.
Appiah, who was part of the Ghana squad which finished as runners-up at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, says Addo's side need to "tighten up" defensively and "be a lot stronger" if they are to progress far in Qatar. Yet he believes victory against Uruguay on Friday would provide some form of closure following the trauma inflicted on his country a dozen years ago. "This is the one that we have to win, we have to just to do it, and then it's over, " the 30-year-old, who is on loan at Colchester United from Crawley Town, said. "It just makes up for 2010. I'll never ever think about Uruguay ever again.
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Even if you see our bench, players were playing regularly for their clubs in top leagues. We had a very strong team. When I am in Ghana, people always say, 'Derek, your team and this team are different. '"But I say to them that our time has passed. This is their time now. We have to support them. We have to do everything in our power to support them so they can achieve their dreams because they look up to us. We are the old players. " Former Ghana player Derek Boateng believes this group of players need to stay calm But does he not wonder what might have been? Had Gyan's penalty been hit a little lower and found the net then Ghana would have been through to the last four of the World Cup.
"I was sitting in the sitting room watching the TV and she came in front of me and asked me, 'So, of all the players you were playing against you could not see anybody to change the shirt with, only Suarez? ' I said, 'Come on, this is nothing, it is a football match. ' Luis Suarez pleads his innocence after his handball for Uruguay against Ghana "I don't have anything personal against him. A lot of people in Ghana still hold that grudge but for me, no. I don't hold anything against him. " Many others see the situation rather differently.
They will use all their experience so we need to be brave and just move the ball and stay compact. " Players react after Ghana's Asamoah Gyan missed a penalty for Ghana against Uruguay Whether this Ghana can do that is unclear. They came into this World Cup as the lowest-ranked team in the tournament after a miserable Africa Cup of Nations at the start of the year.
Twelve years on from South Africa in 2010, Ghana and Uruguay are reunited and once again World Cup progress is on the line. Once again, Suarez stands in the way. Derek Boateng was on the bench for Ghana when the drama unfolded in Soccer City, Johannesburg. He watched on as Suarez was red carded, saw Asamoah Gyan miss the resulting penalty and was helpless as the subsequent penalty shootout was lost. Image: Asamoah Gyan missed the stoppage-time spot kick for Ghana against Uruguay "I forgive him, " Boateng tells Sky Sports.
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