{"id":419568,"date":"2017-09-18T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/18\/wafu-2017-we-are-not-afraid-of-ghana-niger-coach\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T09:30:32","slug":"wafu-2017-we-are-not-afraid-of-ghana-niger-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/18\/wafu-2017-we-are-not-afraid-of-ghana-niger-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFU 2017: We are not afraid of Ghana \u2013 Niger Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/13051058.295.jpg\" alt=\"SENEGAL NIGER WAFU\" title=\"SENEGAL NIGER WAFU\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Every team would like to avoid the host nation but we don\u2019t fear them, says Diabate<\/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\/09\/1505727032_850_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Niger are not scared to face hosts Ghana in the semifinal of the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations, says assistant coach Cheik Omar Diabate.<\/p>\n<p>The Menas played out a 0-0 draw with Cote d\u2019Ivoire on Sunday, September 17 in Cape Coast to amass four points in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Finishing second in the pool will see them draw the Black Stars who are guaranteed top spot in Group A after two straight wins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery team would like to avoid the host nation, but we have seen Ghana play so many times, we don\u2019t fear them,\u201d said Diabate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we happen to meet them, we can beat them because we have seen their matches before coming here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould we meet any team in the semifinal, we are ready. Our objective is to reach the final no matter who our opponents are, if they are either Nigeria, Mali, Guinea or Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Niger will face Benin on Tuesday, September 19 in the final Group B match at the Ndoum stadium.<\/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>Every team would like to avoid the host nation but we don\u2019t fear them, says Diabate &#13; Niger are not scared to face hosts Ghana in the semifinal of the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations, says assistant coach Cheik Omar Diabate. The Menas played out a 0-0 draw with Cote d\u2019Ivoire on Sunday, September 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":418988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WAFU 2017: We are not afraid of Ghana \u2013 Niger Coach - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/18\/wafu-2017-we-are-not-afraid-of-ghana-niger-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"WAFU 2017: We are not afraid of Ghana \u2013 Niger Coach - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Every team would like to avoid the host nation but we don\u2019t fear them, says Diabate &#013; Niger are not scared to face hosts Ghana in the semifinal of the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations, says assistant coach Cheik Omar Diabate. 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