{"id":466819,"date":"2011-07-23T19:16:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/23\/state-confers-honourary-awards-on-ghana-teams\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T19:16:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:16:41","slug":"state-confers-honourary-awards-on-ghana-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/23\/state-confers-honourary-awards-on-ghana-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"State Confers Honourary Awards On Ghana Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"63\">\n<p><strong>By Ameenu Shardow<\/strong><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36561\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/state-confers-honourary-awards-on-ghana-teams\/dv773541-7\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36561\" title=\"State confers honourary awards on Ghana teams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ghana-National-team-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"State confers honourary awards on Ghana teams\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Black Stars team at 2010 World Cup<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The entire Black Stars team have been rewarded with national awards for their heroics at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, <em>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/em> can confirm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The victorious Black Satelites team that won gold at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Egypt have also received a similar award from the Government of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The national awards are part of activities marking Ghana\u2019s 51st Republic Day celebrations and was also conferred to 41 others who have distinguished themselves in various field of endevours.<\/p>\n<p>The playing body of the Black Stars who equaled the African record as quarter finalists at the mundial have been awarded the Companion of the Order of the Volta, while the technical and management teams have been awarded with the Grand Medal.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36562\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/state-confers-honourary-awards-on-ghana-teams\/victorious-ghana-u-20-team-also-honoured\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36562\" title=\"State confers honourary awards on Ghana teams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Victorious-Ghana-U-20-team-also-honoured-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"State confers honourary awards on Ghana teams\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Victorious Ghana U-20 team also honoured<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Similarly, the Black Satelites with head coach (Sellas Tetteh) who beat Brazil in the final despite playing most of the game a man short have been awarded the Companion of the Order of the Volta, while the technical and management teams also receive the Grand Medal.<\/p>\n<p>It is however not readily known whether a function will be organized for the President of the Republic, John Atta-Mills to perform the official presentation of the awards.<\/p>\n<p>It will be noted that similar honours were conferred on the Black Stars by the previous John Kufour led regime after Ghana\u2019s maiden participation at a senior world cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana emerged the only African side to make it through the group phase before being edged out by Brazil at the knockout stage in Germany 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/state-confers-honourary-awards-on-ghana-teams\/\" title=\"State Confers Honourary Awards On Ghana Teams\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Confers Honourary Awards On Ghana Teams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Ameenu Shardow Black Stars team at 2010 World Cup The entire Black Stars team have been rewarded with national awards for their heroics at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, GHANAsoccernet.com can confirm. <\/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-466819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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