{"id":437022,"date":"2011-06-06T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/06\/john-mensah-backs-depleted-stars-to-beat-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2011-06-06T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:23:22","slug":"john-mensah-backs-depleted-stars-to-beat-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/john-mensah-backs-depleted-stars-to-beat-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mensah Backs Depleted Stars To Beat South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"46.5\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"33\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-30901\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/john-mensah-backs-depleted-stars-to-beat-south-korea\/john-mensah-captain-6\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30901\" title=\"John Mensah \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Mensah-captain2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Mensah is backing the Black Stars to beat South Korea<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana <\/strong><strong><span>captain John Mensah is confident the depleted squad can beat South Korea in Tuesday\u2019s international friendly match tomorrow in Jeonju.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>The centre-back and six other key players will miss the assignment but the former Sunderland player is backing the team to get victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMyself and the other key players are absent in persons due to other commitments and injuries , but we are with you in sprit,\u201d Mensah said on his personal website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI believe in my colleagues even though we are not there they still have a better team, having done it before, I know they will do it again. Even though is a friendly match I want to urge them to attach this match with all the needed seriousness as every match count in Fifa ranking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He added: \u201cI pray for the team that God should be behind them so that we will fly the flag of Ghana high come tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Menash, Kevin Prince Boateng, Michael Essien, Samuel Inkoom,Sammy Adjei and Dede Ayew could not make the trip due injuries and other engagements<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/john-mensah-backs-depleted-stars-to-beat-south-korea\/\" title=\"John Mensah Backs Depleted Stars To Beat South Korea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Mensah Backs Depleted Stars To Beat South Korea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. John Mensah is backing the Black Stars to beat South Korea Ghana captain John Mensah is confident the depleted squad can beat South Korea in Tuesday\u2019s international friendly match tomorrow in Jeonju. The centre-back and six other key players will miss the assignment but the former Sunderland player is backing the team to get victory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":437023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Mensah Backs Depleted Stars To Beat South Korea - 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\/06\/06\/john-mensah-backs-depleted-stars-to-beat-south-korea\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"John Mensah Backs Depleted Stars To Beat South Korea - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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