{"id":314716,"date":"2016-01-10T01:35:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/ghana-will-need-gods-intervention-to-win-afcon-kwadwo-asamoah\/"},"modified":"2016-01-10T01:35:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T01:35:51","slug":"ghana-will-need-gods-intervention-to-win-afcon-kwadwo-asamoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/01\/10\/ghana-will-need-gods-intervention-to-win-afcon-kwadwo-asamoah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana will need God&#8217;s intervention to win Afcon &#8211; Kwadwo Asamoah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\" readability=\"51.828617191671\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><br \/>\n<a name=\"top\" id=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday,  9 January 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>peacefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"date\" style=\"display:none\">2016-01-09<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"Ghana-will-need-God-s-intervention-to-win-Afcon-Kwadwo-Asamoah-406395?gallery=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/70032073.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwadwo Asamoah Pensive04Oct2010\" title=\"Kwadwo Asamoah Pensive04Oct2010\" width=\"295\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image_caption\">Kwadwo Asamoah<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Following a series of disappointments in recent years, the playmaker claims only divine favour will end Ghana\u2019s Afcon misery.<\/p>\n<p>Black Stars midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah believes it would take a special hand of God to see Ghana lift the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations to hold in Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars have suffered a series of near misses since lifting their last of four titles in Libya in 1982, having earlier ruled the continent in 1963, 1965 and 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1982, Ghana have been losing finalists on three occasions in 1992, 2010 as well as 2015 when they succumbed 9-8 on penalties to Cote d\u2019Ivoire, and have also made successive semi-final appearances at the last five editions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can win the Afcon in 2017,\u201d Asamoah told Metro TV on Ghana\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t say much about the final that we lost to Cote d\u2019Ivoire but what I know is that we did well. I don\u2019t have any corrections. We just lost on penalties. If something is not for you, it\u2019s not for you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball can sometimes be strange and things that people are expecting don\u2019t always happen. Now, I think that only if God says \u2018this year, Ghana is going to win\u2019 will it happen. With the favour in that, we can do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the final against Cote d\u2019Ivoire, they did everything that they had to do but unfortunately, they couldn\u2019t bring the cup home and it was all about hard luck. We played so well but at the end, we couldn\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently leading Group H of the 2017 Afcon qualifiers, the Black Stars will hope to make it three wins out of three matches when they take on Mozambique in March.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 28 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sports News of Saturday, 9 January 2016 Source: peacefmonline.com 2016-01-09 Kwadwo Asamoah Following a series of disappointments in recent years, the playmaker claims only divine favour will end Ghana\u2019s Afcon misery. 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