Ghana - Israeli Flag?

[seak]

While celebrating their win over the CR one of the Ghana players celebrated by holding up an Israeli flag. Does anyone know why? Curious

[Gav]

You mean this flag?

[seak]

No this one: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...s/is-flag.html

The one with two horizontal blue strips and a start of David in the middle

Yes I know what the Ghana flag looks like btw

[Gav]

Sorry I couldn't resist. It seemed like such a daft question to ask.

Perhaps hes Jewish?

You'd probably have to ask him.

I've got lots of questions about some of the emerging nation teams in this World Cup and, to be honest, there is precious little information out there.

EDIT: According to several websites (quoting the CIA factbook) there is a relationship between Ghana and Isreal - Israel provided the Ghanians with a military advisers. Whether this relationship has anything to do with the flag you saw being waved I couldn't say.

[prototoast]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...p/r4812773.jpg

"Painstil plays for Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv."

[seak]

thanks for the answers, it just seemed so random, but I figured there might be a reason and thought I would see if anyone here heard anything.

[mrbiggs]

Maybe he was so surprised by the win that he got confused.

[xcrunner]

he had promised to hold up the flag if ghana scored any goals during the wc.