Ghana attacker Richmond Boakye Yiadom has revealed why he failed to play a single game at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations held in South Africa.
Boakye-Yiadom made the final 23-man squad for the tourney but suffered an injury in the last training game which ruled him out of the tournament.
According to the former Red Star Belgrade goal-machine, a collision with Black Stars defender John Boye ended his dreams of playing in the AFCON.
“The 2013 AFCON, anybody who watched me, saw that I was playing well. In our last game before we flew to South Africa, I collided with John Boye and he sat on my leg that was the end”, Boakye told Accra-based radio station Happy FM during an interview.
He also debunked reports that he carried the injury to camp only to go play table tennis without kicking a ball.
“I never carried any injury to camp. I was in top form playing well at club level before joining the national team”
Boakye-Yiadom further mentioned that he was ‘destined to do great things’ at the tournament but the injury ended his dreams.
“I knew God wanted to use me to do something in that tournament but unfortunately something happened”.
Coach Kwasi Appiah’s side lost to Burkina Faso in the semi-finals in the tournament.
