{"id":424699,"date":"2017-10-03T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/03\/harrison-afful-jonathan-mensah-out-of-ghana-squad-after-sustaining-injuries\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T12:30:26","slug":"harrison-afful-jonathan-mensah-out-of-ghana-squad-after-sustaining-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/03\/harrison-afful-jonathan-mensah-out-of-ghana-squad-after-sustaining-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Afful, Jonathan Mensah out of Ghana squad after sustaining injuries"},"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\/26838562.295.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Mensah Afful\" title=\"Jonathan Mensah Afful\" width=\"295\" height=\"263\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Jonathan Mensah and Harrison Afful<\/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\/1507033826_61_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Columbus Crew duo Jonathan Mensah and Harrison Afful will undergo test in the United States after sustaining various injuries in camp.<\/p>\n<p>The two players all picked up knocks whiles playing for their Cub Columbus Crew in the MLS over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Both players will be assessed by their Club who will later give out feedback to the Black Stars technical team before releasing the two defenders for National duties.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah and Afful are in Coach Kwesi Appiah\u2019s squad for Saturday clash against Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Already Ghana will be heading into the game without influential captain Asamoah Gyan as well as his deputy Andre Ayew and brother Jonathan Ayew who have all been dropped from the team.<\/p>\n<p>Failure for the two players to join the team in Nairobi could be a blow for Ghana as they remain vital members of the squad.<\/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>Jonathan Mensah and Harrison Afful &#13; Columbus Crew duo Jonathan Mensah and Harrison Afful will undergo test in the United States after sustaining various injuries in camp. The two players all picked up knocks whiles playing for their Cub Columbus Crew in the MLS over the weekend. Both players will be assessed by their Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":397248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424699","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>Harrison Afful, Jonathan Mensah out of Ghana squad after sustaining injuries - 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\/03\/harrison-afful-jonathan-mensah-out-of-ghana-squad-after-sustaining-injuries\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Harrison Afful, Jonathan Mensah out of Ghana squad after sustaining injuries - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Jonathan Mensah and Harrison Afful &#013; Columbus Crew duo Jonathan Mensah and Harrison Afful will undergo test in the United States after sustaining various injuries in camp. 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