{"id":447039,"date":"2017-12-14T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/14\/missing-2018-world-cup-is-a-huge-disappointment-kwesi-nyantakyi\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:00:27","slug":"missing-2018-world-cup-is-a-huge-disappointment-kwesi-nyantakyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/14\/missing-2018-world-cup-is-a-huge-disappointment-kwesi-nyantakyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 2018 World Cup is a huge disappointment &#8211; Kwesi Nyantakyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 14 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-14<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/59896142.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi Zurich\" title=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi Zurich\" width=\"295\" height=\"233\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi<\/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=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513256427_591_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, has admitted that he is gutted at the nation\u2019s failure to make the 2018 World Cup in Russia and miss the World Cup for the first time since it first qualified in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana finished third in Group E with 7 points and lost out to Egypt who got the ticket and will represent Africa in Group A of the World Cup with Russia, Saudi Arabia and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s ability to make the Mundial ends a run of three straight tournaments and Kwesi Nyantakyi has revealed his displeasure at the latest development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing to the World Cup has become part and parcel of our lives and so, for me, it is an anticlimax.<\/p>\n<p>It is a big disappointment to me as a person and for me as the head of the football association, I think that it is not encouraging at all that we will not be able to respond to the roll call of the world\u2019s biggest footballing nations in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>But we cannot do anything about it now. 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We have to restrategise and look forward to 2022 and ensure that we do not miss the boat the next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana had a poor qualifying campaign recording only own win (a 5-1 win away to Congo Brazzaville), four draws, and a loss.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/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 Thursday, 14 December 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-12-14 President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, has admitted that he is gutted at the nation\u2019s failure to make the 2018 World Cup in Russia and miss the World Cup for the first time since it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Missing 2018 World Cup is a huge disappointment - Kwesi Nyantakyi - 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\/12\/14\/missing-2018-world-cup-is-a-huge-disappointment-kwesi-nyantakyi\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Missing 2018 World Cup is a huge disappointment - Kwesi Nyantakyi - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Thursday, 14 December 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-12-14 President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, has admitted that he is gutted at the nation\u2019s failure to make the 2018 World Cup in Russia and miss the World Cup for the first time since it [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/14\\\/missing-2018-world-cup-is-a-huge-disappointment-kwesi-nyantakyi\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/14\\\/missing-2018-world-cup-is-a-huge-disappointment-kwesi-nyantakyi\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Missing 2018 World Cup is a huge disappointment &#8211; 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