Asante Kotoko Maxwell Konadu has stated he "can't explain" why he fielded 10 players in the first half of their Ghana Premier League clash with Aduana Stars on Wednesday.
The Porcupine Warriors and their opponents produced a bizarre scene in their Matchweek 11 fixture as both teams presented 10 players each for the first 45 minutes.
Their action, which has attracted wild criticism and ridicule, is understood to be for a superstitious belief that whichever team first deployed 11 men onto the pitch on the day would lose the match.
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"I can't explain that," Konadu, who led Ghana to win silver at the 2019 Wafu Cup of Nations in Senegal, curtly replied when questioned about their action during a post-match pitch-side interview with StarTimes.