{"id":399106,"date":"2017-07-09T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T10:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/09\/eric-ayiah-fears-usa-threat-at-fifa-u17-world-cup-finals\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T10:35:24","slug":"eric-ayiah-fears-usa-threat-at-fifa-u17-world-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/09\/eric-ayiah-fears-usa-threat-at-fifa-u17-world-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Ayiah fears USA threat at FIFA U17 World Cup finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/36465623.295.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Eyiah\" title=\"Eric Eyiah\" width=\"295\" height=\"283\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Eric Ayiah has confessed that USA poses major threat in the U17 World Cup<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1499596524_705_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Black Starlets captain Eric Ayiah has identified USA as their major threat in the group stage at the FIFA U17 World Cup in India. <\/p>\n<p>The Black Starlets were drawn with the hosts, the Americans and Columbia in Group A at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will be playing in the U17 World Cup for the first time since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we know the countries in our group but we don\u2019t know anything about the teams so it\u2019s going to be difficult,&#8221; he told Starr FM after the draw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we are going to prepare very well to face them.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUSA may be our biggest contenders because they are a football country but we will work harder to overcome them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will play in the tournament opener against Columbia on 6 October before playing USA and hosts India.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 FIFA U17 World Cup finals will run from 6-28 October.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Ayiah has confessed that USA poses major threat in the U17 World Cup &#13; Black Starlets captain Eric Ayiah has identified USA as their major threat in the group stage at the FIFA U17 World Cup in India. 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