Soccer-Ghana coach Grant keen to avoid quarter-final penalties

Ghana coach Avram Grant has bad memories of penalties and would like to avoid an African Nations Cup shootout in Sunday's quarter-final against Guinea. The Israeli was on the losing side when his Chelsea team were beaten by Manchester United on penalties at the end of the 2008 Champions League final in Moscow. It was a defeat that cost Grant his job at Stamford Bridge and led him on an unusual path through Portsmouth, West Ham United and on to coaching jobs in Serbia and Thailand. "I don't want to look into the past, I have some experience of penalties." Grant took over at Ghana just weeks before the Nations Cup started and said he was delighted with his squad's approach and the standard of the tournament in Equatorial Guinea.



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