Our Shatta Movement man Benjamin Asare is cashing out from the Verna family from Twellium Industrial Company Limited. Let’s all drink some more Verna water products before, during and after the World Cup.
🚨 BREAKING: According to FourFourTwo Football, Ghana currently have the best defense at the World Cup after keeping England’s attack silent for 90 minutes. 🇬🇭🧱
🇬🇭 HISTORY MADE!
🧤 Benjamin Asare steps between the sticks for Ghana vs England
🥇 The Hearts of Oak star becomes the FIRST Ghana Premier League goalkeeper to start a World Cup game for the Black Stars!
🌍 This is massive for local talent!
To all Ghanaians who believed in us, we say a big thank you to you all. Keep supporting us, and we will do our best to bring you smiles.
Go BlackStars ❤️🇬🇭
🚨 BREAKING: Football fans across the globe have voted Benjamin Asare as their Man of the Match against England.
He may not have won the official award, but he won the hearts of the fans. 👏🏾🔥🇬🇭
England brought Premier League stars to a World Cup. Ghana 🇬🇭 brought a goalkeeper from Accra. Ghana did not lose.
Benjamin Asare 🇬🇭🧤
He is 33 years old. He plays his club football at Accra Hearts of Oak in the Ghana Premier League. He has never played in Europe. Not even once.
Yet he is the man standing between Ghana and the world right now.
It started in the qualifiers. While Ghana's foreign-based keepers took the headlines, Asare was quietly doing his job at home, featuring in 6 qualification matches, conceding just once, helping the Black Stars punch their ticket to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
He arrived in North America as the backup. Lawrence Ati-Zigi was the number one. Asare was just supposed to be there, just in case.
Then God had other plans.
Against Panama in Ghana's opening group game, Ati-Zigi went down injured in the first half. Asare warmed up on the touchline. He came on at half-time with Ghana leading 1-0 and the pressure of a World Cup debut on his shoulders.
He kept the clean sheet. Ghana won.
Then came England. England's starting lineup was filled with players from the Premier League, La Liga, and the Bundesliga. Harry Kane. Jude Bellingham. Declan Rice. England had 78% possession and 19 shots.
Asare made 6 saves. England scored zero.
He became the first goalkeeper from the Ghana Premier League to start a FIFA World Cup match for the Black Stars. Not just to play. To start. Against England.
No team has avoided defeat while attempting so few shots in a World Cup game since at least 1966.
Ghana had 22% possession and 2 shots total. They did not lose.
Ghana have 4 points from 2 games and are on the brink of the Round of 16 for the first time since 2010. The man holding the wall is not from the Premier League. He is not from Ligue 1 or the Bundesliga.
He goes home to the Ghana Premier League after this.
Benjamin Asare is proof that greatness does not require a European postcode.
33-year-old Benjamin Asare, who plays in the Ghana Premier League kept a clean sheet against the likes of Kane, Rashford, Gordon, Bellingham, Madueke, Saka, Rashford, Eze and Rogers 🧤
The beauty of the World Cup 🤩