{"id":1376,"date":"2013-01-11T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/afranie-backs-appiah\/"},"modified":"2013-01-11T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T07:32:00","slug":"afranie-backs-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/11\/afranie-backs-appiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Afranie Backs Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_209317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c15\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209317\" title=\"Former Stars coach Afranie believes Kwesi Appiah can ended Ghana's trophiless run\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/36b6Appiah-can-ended-Ghanas-trophiless-run-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Stars coach Afranie believes Kwesi Appiah can ended Ghana&#8217;s trophiless run<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Former Ghana coach Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie is backing Kwesi Appiah to end Ghana\u2019s 31-year-old trophiless\u00a0hoodoo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars have failed to win the Nations Cup in 17 attempts after lifting the trophy in 1982 in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana have reached the semi-finals in the past three editions but failed to win the title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKwesi has the backing of all the local coaches because he listens and I believe that if we do things right, we will win the trophy,\u201d he told Accra-based Happy FM.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars defeated Egypt 3-0 in a warm-up game in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Stars coach Afranie believes Kwesi Appiah can ended Ghana&#8217;s trophiless run Former Ghana coach Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie is backing Kwesi Appiah to end Ghana\u2019s 31-year-old trophiless\u00a0hoodoo. &#8230;<\/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-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}