{"id":380010,"date":"2011-04-13T20:24:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/13\/ghana-u20-coach-confident-of-beating-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T20:24:50","slug":"ghana-u20-coach-confident-of-beating-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/ghana-u20-coach-confident-of-beating-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana U20 Coach Confident Of Beating Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"59\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Patrick Akoto<\/strong><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cd58fc49welli.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27103\" title=\"Orlando Wellington\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cd58fc49welli.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana Under-20 coach Orlando Wellington<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana Under-20 head coach Orlando Wellington says he is prepared for a showdown with Nigeria in their Group B opener at the African Youth Championship next Monday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flying Eagles Stephane Okoro began the battle of words by claiming they are not afraid of the defending champions ahead of their clash on 18 April.\u00a0 <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The West African neigbours share eight titles among them with Nigeria hauling five and Ghana winning thier third silverware at the 2009 edition in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana beat second-tier side Oserian FC 2-0 on Tuesday in a final brush up in Kenya with goals from strikers Kwame Amponsah-Karikari and Richmond Boakye Yiadom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they say they\u2019re not afraid of us, we\u2019re equally not afraid of them. We\u2019re the defending champions and therefore if they want to win the Cup, they must get past us first,\u201d Wellington told Peace FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seriously aware of the expectations of Ghanaian on the team and we\u2019re hopeful we can live up to the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team will also play Cameroon and Gambia in pool B with the top two sides qualifying to the Fifa World Cup in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cd58fc49welli.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/ghana-u20-coach-confident-of-beating-nigeria\/\" title=\"Ghana U20 Coach Confident Of Beating Nigeria\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana U20 Coach Confident Of Beating Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. <\/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-380010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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