{"id":20445,"date":"2011-12-23T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/nigeria-coach-keshi-rubbishes-ghanas-nations-cup-title-chances\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:48:10","slug":"nigeria-coach-keshi-rubbishes-ghanas-nations-cup-title-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/nigeria-coach-keshi-rubbishes-ghanas-nations-cup-title-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Coach Keshi Rubbishes Ghana\u2019s Nations Cup Title Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span>Posted On Friday, 23rd December 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"56\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/nigeria-coach-keshi-rubbishes-ghanas-nations-cup-title-chances\/keshi-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101917\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101917\" title=\"keshi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/826bkeshi.jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says Ghana must forget about winning the Africa Cup of Nations title next month insisting the Black Stars have no quality players to win the trophy.\" width=\"466\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says Ghana must forget about winning the Nations Cup<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says Ghana must forget about winning the Africa Cup of Nations title next month\u00a0insisting\u00a0the Black Stars have no quality players to win the trophy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles coach said the Nations Cup in Gabon &#038; Equatorial Guinea will be one of the toughest\u00a0predicting that Senegal and Ivory Coast are the favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Keshi based his prediction on the calibre of players to be paraded by the two West African countries and because of the quality and experience they have in their squads.<br \/>\u201cI don\u2019t think Ghana, Guinea or the two hosts will win the cup. A lot of people may be surprised that I mentioned Ghana among those who would not win the cup,\u201d Keshi said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did so because the Ghanaian squad as presently composed do not have the quality of a champion like what the Ivorians and Senegalese boast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tip Senegal and Cote d\u2019Ivoire to reach the final if they can avoid each other but it is difficult to say who would win, but there will be one or two surprises from first timers like Niger or Botswana,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will play Guinea, Mali and Botswana in Group D.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Friday, 23rd December 2011 Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says Ghana must forget about winning the Nations Cup Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says Ghana must forget about winning the Africa Cup of Nations title next month\u00a0insisting\u00a0the Black Stars have no quality players to win the trophy. The Super Eagles coach said the Nations Cup in Gabon &#038; Equatorial Guinea will be one of the toughest\u00a0predicting that Senegal and Ivory Coast are the favourites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria Coach Keshi Rubbishes Ghana\u2019s Nations Cup Title Chances - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/nigeria-coach-keshi-rubbishes-ghanas-nations-cup-title-chances\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria Coach Keshi Rubbishes Ghana\u2019s Nations Cup Title Chances - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Posted On Friday, 23rd December 2011 Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says Ghana must forget about winning the Nations Cup Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says Ghana must forget about winning the Africa Cup of Nations title next month\u00a0insisting\u00a0the Black Stars have no quality players to win the trophy. 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