Take the two goal-scoring heroes in the historic 2-0 win over Barcelona: Sulley Muntari and Boateng.
Muntari is counting on Portsmouth's large African contingent to help him adapt to the English game.
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Despite his delight at clinching the move to the Premiership, Muntari admits he will miss Italy.
BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Muntari vows to clean up his act
The former Fenerbahce midfielder didn't look rusty as Agogo and Muntari failed to utilise his inch-perfect passes.
Sulley Muntari put Milan ahead in the San Siro and Robinho sealed a vital victory in injury time.
Muntari was sent off three times and received twelve yellow cards in the Italian Serie A last season.
BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Muntari vows to clean up his act
Then came Muntari moment of double madness, resulting in one of the quickest red cards in Italian football history.
The home side had already made one enforced change when they replaced the injured Sulley Muntari with Lee Cattermole.
Benjani waited on the ball before releasing Muntari whose angled shot to the near post trickled in underneath keeper Kingson's body.
In Serie A, Sulley Muntari and Wesley Sneijder were on target as champions Inter Milan beat Catania 2-1 to stay top.
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Sulley Muntari (calf) and Kieran Richardson (hamstring) both limped off before Dirk Kuyt opened the scoring with the hotly contested 34th-minute penalty.
"I met the African players at Portsmouth when we played Kanu Nwankwo's charity in May and they are nice people, " Muntari said.
BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Muntari vows to clean up his act
"We played as a team and we listened to our coach, " said Muntari, whose goal was his first ever in the Champions League.
Muntari had the first decent effort at goal, driving narrowly over with a 25-yard free-kick, while Herman Hreidarsson headed wide from a Kranjcar corner.
And in Sol Campbell and Sylvan Distin, they were coming up against a resolute backline which was amply protected Diop, Sean Davis and Sulley Muntari.
Sully Muntari came on as a second-half substitute, seemingly confirming Mourinho's belief that the player had reduced energy levels as a result of fasting for Ramadan.
The striker was also involved in another controversial incident during the Roma match, which ended up with teammate Sullery Muntari being sent off after manhandling the referee.
Ghana had numerous scoring chances in the first half but Junior Agogo and Sulley Muntari fluffed the opportunities after key midfielder Michael Essien was taken off injured.
Muntari, who was disappointed to miss out on a move to Manchester United when a 16-year-old, scored five goals in 33 appearances for FA Cup winners Portsmouth.
Pedro Mendes and Sulley Muntari have left the club while Niko Kranjcar is sidelined following an ankle injury - leaving Redknapp without three of his FA Cup Final midfielders.
An abysmal first half was typified by poor passing and scrappy play, and a Sulley Muntari shot that flew over was the closest either side came to a goal.
Juventus benefitted from Muntari's unseen ghost goal but was penalized when its own forward, Alessandro Matri, had a goal disallowed in the second half for offside, while replays suggested otherwise.
The defender was a key player of the Ghana squad - along with Chelsea's Michael Essien, and Sulley Muntari of Inter Milan - which reached the 2006 World Cup finals.
So it came as no surprise when Muntari found himself in enough space down the left to provide a wonderful near-post cross which Benjani turned in with a side-foot volley.
Muntari took offense when Rocchi booked Balotelli in the first half, and was ordered off after trying to prevent the referee from issuing another yellow card when the midfielder protested the decision.
Portsmouth almost broke the deadlock, courtesy of those two Muntari free-kicks, but the first was deflected inches wide by Tim Howard's foot and another turned over the top by the Everton keeper.
Mario Balotelli then struck the crossbar with a free-kick before the points were sealed in the final minute when Samuel Eto'o was left unmarked in the area to slide home a Sulley Muntari cross.
Within seconds, Portsmouth swept downfield and struck the woodwork twice when Sulley Muntari's thunderous left-foot strike was pushed onto the right-hand post by Hart before Utaka smashed the resulting deflection onto the left-hand post.
Inter has already been punished in domestic competition after the Italian football authorities found its fans guilty of racially abusing former players Mario Balotelli and Sulley Muntari, who now play for fierce rival AC Milan.
It is understood that Redknapp agreed to the sale of Muntari on the condition that he was handed the proceeds to sign Shaun Wright-Phillips from Chelsea, but the money was banked and Wright-Phillips went to Manchester City.
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