{"id":437822,"date":"2017-11-16T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/2018-world-cup-we-shot-ourselves-in-the-foot-kurt-okraku\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:28:32","slug":"2018-world-cup-we-shot-ourselves-in-the-foot-kurt-okraku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/2018-world-cup-we-shot-ourselves-in-the-foot-kurt-okraku\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 World Cup : We shot ourselves in the foot &#8211; Kurt Okraku"},"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\/20977871.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kurt Okraku3\" title=\"Kurt Okraku3\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kurt Okraku believes the FA was not ready to qualify for the World Cup<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151057541642576\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151057541642576\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510828112_503_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Member of the Ghana Football Association Executive committee Kurt Okraku says they shot themselves in the foot in all aspects of their preparations towards the 2018 World Cup in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana failed to make a fourth successive appearance at the Mundial after Egypt secured the sole ticket from E in the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Extra time with host Henry Asante Twum, the Executive Director of Dreams FC believe the frosty relationship between the then sports ministry and the FA, coupled with the work done by the technical team and the players clearly showed that they were not ready to battle it out for a place in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate that we could not make it to the event\u201d \u201cIndeed we were in the mood of being used to always making it to the Mundial at every taking\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Germany, South Africa and Brazil we were present so we were getting used to it and getting to know that we won&#8217;t go to Russia, it was bit hard but we lost it,\u201dKurt told Starr Sports<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the frosty relationship between the then sports ministry and the FA, coupled with the work done by the technical team and the players clearly showed that we as a people were not ready that the truth so we lost it \u201che added<\/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>Kurt Okraku believes the FA was not ready to qualify for the World Cup Member of the Ghana Football Association Executive committee Kurt Okraku says they shot themselves in the foot in all aspects of their preparations towards the 2018 World Cup in Russia. 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