{"id":337725,"date":"2011-03-25T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/25\/ghana-fa-issues-about-stars-captaincy-is-not-important-now\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:18:03","slug":"ghana-fa-issues-about-stars-captaincy-is-not-important-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/ghana-fa-issues-about-stars-captaincy-is-not-important-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana FA : &#8220;Issues About Stars Captaincy Is Not Important Now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Ghana Football Association officials have brushed talks of a potential captaincy row in the Black Stars camp.<\/p>\n<p>Centre-back John Mensah has deputized since Stephen Appiah called time on international career after the 2010 Fifa World Cup last June.<\/p>\n<p>But the Sunderland defender is yet to be handed the armband permanently.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars captaincy destroyed the team when Kwasi Appiah was stripped of the armband and handed to Abedi Pele in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>With this history in mind, measures must be taken by new Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic and crucially Ghana FA officials who know the background of the Black Stars captaincy that created serious divisions in the squad, affecting the talented team for many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIssues about captaincy is not important now. We will look at that at the appropriate time, \u201d Ghana FA vice president Fred Pappoe told Accra-based Happy FM.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1455-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ghana Football Association officials have brushed talks of a potential captaincy row in the Black Stars camp. Centre-back John Mensah has deputized since Stephen Appiah called time on international career after the 2010 Fifa World Cup last June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana FA : &quot;Issues About Stars Captaincy Is Not Important Now&quot; - 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\/03\/25\/ghana-fa-issues-about-stars-captaincy-is-not-important-now\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana FA : &quot;Issues About Stars Captaincy Is Not Important Now&quot; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghana Football Association officials have brushed talks of a potential captaincy row in the Black Stars camp. 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