{"id":14446,"date":"2013-01-30T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/ghana-undergo-penalty-practice-ahead-of-cape-verde-afcon-clash\/"},"modified":"2013-01-30T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:33:00","slug":"ghana-undergo-penalty-practice-ahead-of-cape-verde-afcon-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/30\/ghana-undergo-penalty-practice-ahead-of-cape-verde-afcon-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Undergo Penalty Practice Ahead Of Cape Verde Afcon Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span class=\"small-txt c14\">Posted On Wednesday, 30th January 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"48\">\n<div id=\"attachment_211829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c15\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-211829\" title=\"pen\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/917apen-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana players have been practising penalties pretty intensely ahead of Saturday's quarterfinal clash with Cape Verde at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghana practising penalty kicks during Wednesday&#8217;s training session<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana players have been practising penalties pretty intensely ahead of Saturday\u2019s quarterfinal clash with Cape Verde at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars have suffered cruel penalty misses at major tournaments in the past and coach Kwesi Appiah is looking to banish the demons.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the knock out stage of the competition the squad took some time in Wednesday\u2019s training session at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University to rehearse.<\/p>\n<p>Among manager Kwesi Appiah\u2019s first five penalty takers will be Mubarak Wakaso, Kwadwo Asamoah, Christian Atsu and a few others.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Asamoah Gyan has opted out of taking penalties in regulation time for Ghana but would be happy to step up if required in the shoot-out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Wednesday, 30th January 2013 Ghana practising penalty kicks during Wednesday&#8217;s training session Ghana players have been practising penalties pretty intensely ahead of Saturday\u2019s quarterfinal clash with Cape Verde at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The Black Stars have suffered cruel penalty misses at major tournaments in the past and coach Kwesi Appiah is looking to banish the demons. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446","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=14446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}