{"id":424062,"date":"2017-10-01T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/01\/there-are-thousands-of-ghanaian-players-i-can-select-from-kwesi-appiah\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T11:30:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T11:30:28","slug":"there-are-thousands-of-ghanaian-players-i-can-select-from-kwesi-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/01\/there-are-thousands-of-ghanaian-players-i-can-select-from-kwesi-appiah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from&#8217; &#8211; Kwesi Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Sunday,  1 October 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n<p>2017-10-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/31645859.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Appiah Sad\" title=\"Kwesi Appiah Sad\" width=\"295\" height=\"168\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kwesi Appiah<\/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\/10\/1506857428_776_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Black Stars coach, James Kwesi Appiah, has said that the team is not only about the Ayew\u2019s and that in his bid to build a strong team for the future \u201cthere are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Appiah announced a 26-man squad for the must-win encounter against the Red Devils in Kampala without the experienced duo.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the GNA Sports on Friday, he explained that his exclusion of Dede Ayew and Jordan Ayew from the squad to face Uganda in a FIFA World Cup was qualifier in Kampala on October 7 was to give opportunities to other equally good players.<\/p>\n<p>The coach invited seven debutants, including two home-based players to augment his squad, as Ghana faces a herculean task of qualifying to the Mundial for the fourth consecutive time.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he wants to build a formidable team for the future; hence the dropping of the two England based players.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cwe know the calibre of Dede and Jordan Ayew already and if we want to build a team for the future, then we need to give other players the chance to also prove themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the duo\u2019s exclusion from the squad was a result of dip in form, he said \u201cno, they are playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coach came under a barrage of criticisms from a section of the Ghanaian populace over his decision to drop the duo because of a feud between Appiah and the father of the Ayew\u2019s over captaincy issues in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>He however debunked the rumours saying, \u201cthis has nothing to do with that because there\u2019s no issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana lies third in Group E with five points behind Egypt 9 and Uganda 7, with Congo lying at the bottom with 1 point after four matches played.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: -1 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\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>Sports News of Sunday, 1 October 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-10-01 Kwesi Appiah &#13; Black Stars coach, James Kwesi Appiah, has said that the team is not only about the Ayew\u2019s and that in his bid to build a strong team for the future \u201cthere are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from.\u201d Coach Appiah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":414882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424062","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>&#039;There are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from&#039; - Kwesi Appiah - 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\/10\/01\/there-are-thousands-of-ghanaian-players-i-can-select-from-kwesi-appiah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;There are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from&#039; 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