{"id":1000447,"date":"2022-02-22T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/22\/fifa-sets-new-date-for-ghana-nigeria-clash\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:12:59","slug":"fifa-sets-new-date-for-ghana-nigeria-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/22\/fifa-sets-new-date-for-ghana-nigeria-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Sets New Date For Ghana-Nigeria Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s plans for their decisive 2022 World Cup play-off against rivals Nigeria have been thrown off gear after football\u2019s world governing body, FIFA rescheduled the dates for Ghana\u2019s Qatar 2022 World Cup play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>The two matches to decide which of the two countries would seal a ticket for the World Cup in Qatar was originally scheduled for March 24 and 27.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has now been rescheduled to March 25 and 29.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the news has come as a big relief for both sides whose squad are dominated by players plying their trade in Europe with some of the top clubs in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Refreshingly, the change in dates, offers more days of training before the first leg while extending the training day for the second-leg by another day.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will first host the Super Eagles in Cape Coast before travelling to Abuja for the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the two-legged game qualifies for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana are hoping to make a return to the Mundial after missing the Russia 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s plans for their decisive 2022 World Cup play-off against rivals Nigeria have been thrown off gear after football\u2019s world governing body, FIFA rescheduled the dates for Ghana\u2019s Qatar 2022 World Cup play-offs. The two matches to decide which of the two countries would seal a ticket for the World Cup in Qatar was originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1000448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[214,215,779,5190,2757],"class_list":["post-1000447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-clash","tag-date","tag-fifa","tag-ghananigeria","tag-sets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}