{"id":6143,"date":"2013-01-19T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/afcon-2013-i-believe-in-keshi\/"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:36:00","slug":"afcon-2013-i-believe-in-keshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/19\/afcon-2013-i-believe-in-keshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2013: I believe in Keshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56\">\n<p>Nigeria skipper Joseph Yobo has again backed his team\u2019s chances at the Africa Cup of Nations, which begins on Saturday in Johannesburg. The Super Eagles have won the competition twice, but the last time they did so was 19 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But skipper Yobo said on arrival in South Africa on Thursday that he expects the team made up of as many as 17 AFCON debutants to gain in confidence as the tournament progresses and thus improve their chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in this team. I believe in the chief coach as well as the other coaches,\u201d said the Fenerbache defender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of young players in the team with a few experienced ones, which tells you this is a good team going into the tournament. \u201cWe started this journey slowly after we did not qualify for the last tournament. But now we have qualified. That is why we are here and we will take it a game at a time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_206538\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft c21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-206538\" alt=\"Yobo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/098eYobo217.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yobo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of experience going into this tournament (this is his record sixth AFCON) and we are not under pressure to come and win it but as we progress, the confidence will come.\u201d The Eagles begin their campaign on Monday against fellow West Africans Burkina Faso in Nelspruit. Defending champions Zambia and Ethiopia are the other teams in Group C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nigeria skipper Joseph Yobo has again backed his team\u2019s chances at the Africa Cup of Nations, which begins on Saturday in Johannesburg. &#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-6143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143","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=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}