Jonathan Mensah is GhanaWeb Sporting activities Individuality of the 12 months

Athletics News of Thursday, 31 December 2020

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2020-12-31

Sports, like quite a few other sectors, took a large hit from the coronavirus and its soon after-outcomes.

From March until eventually now that lockdown limits have been eased, sports activities is nonetheless yet to entirely get well from the pandemic.

Federations and sports activities party organizers have been shelved or cancelled because of to the pandemic.

Irrespective of these challenges, some Ghanaian sporting activities personalities did exceedingly very well and gave the country some constructive evaluations on the environment stage.

In boxing, we can discuss about Wasiru Mohammed, Richard Commey and Duke Micah who all experienced bouts in the calendar year under overview while they could not deliver household any environment title.

Athletics was somewhat tranquil as most athletes in Ghana and overseas had their qualification competitions scrapped.

Soccer also witnessed some gains with the likes of Partey, Kudus, Jordan Ayew and Andre Ayew shedding beneficial lights on the nation with their exploits for their respective clubs.

Having said that, 1 Ghanaian sports activities individual who stood out and deserves the award of GhanaWeb Sports activities Character of the 12 months is Jonathan Mensah.

The centre again led Columbus Crew to get the Big League Soccer title, starting to be the very first Ghanaian to reach the feat.

Jonathan Mensah has not only become an ambassador for the nation on the field but also off the industry.

His mindset has gained him plaudits with the head coach of Columbus Crew chatting him up as possible presidential prospect.

“I consider he’s an unbelievable person, a single of the greatest individuals you will ever fulfill, just large coronary heart, truly superior male, actually special leader,” the Columbus Crew mentor stated.

“He hasn’t viewed his spouse in 10 months and I could not imagine getting 10 months without my wife. The actuality he goes house by yourself each and every working day and comes to education and rolls the sleeves up, he’s just unbelievable.

“I joke with him he’s heading to be the president of Ghana a single working day. He has that sort of high quality.”

He was also named in the Big League Soccer’s workforce of the time and is a contender for Columbus Crew very best participant award.

He has since 2017 designed 100 appearances (97 commences) for the Club, when scoring 3 ambitions and providing a person guide. The Black & Gold captain produced his milestone 100th frequent-period overall look on Conclusion Day in a 2-1 household victory towards Atlanta United on November 8, 2020.

For the Black Stars, Jonathan Mensah has been capped 58 moments and was aspect of the Black Satellites workforce that won the 2010 World Youth Championship.

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