{"id":1032368,"date":"2022-03-23T22:32:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/23\/why-majeed-ashimeru-was-excluded-from-black-stars-squad\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:32:09","slug":"why-majeed-ashimeru-was-excluded-from-black-stars-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/23\/why-majeed-ashimeru-was-excluded-from-black-stars-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Majeed Ashimeru was excluded from Black Stars squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/78536501.jpg\"   alt=\"Majeed Ashimeru\" title=\"Majeed Ashimeru\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majeed Ashimeru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association [GFA] has confirmed that\u00a0Majeed Ashimeru was not named in Black Stars squad to face Nigeria in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Anderlecht midfielder, despite his fine form, was not named in the Black Stars squad for the crucial games this month.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the technical team of the Black Stars was described as nonsense by\u00a0Asamoah Gyan.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam Doctors of the respective clubs of the players wrote and officially informed the GFA of their injury situations and confirmed their unavailability for the double-header against Nigeria,\u201d a statement from the GFA added.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u00a0arrived in Kumasi\u00a0on Tuesday afternoon and held their first training at the Baba Yara Stadium later that evening.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will play the first leg in Kumasi on Friday 25th August, 2022 in Kumasi with the return leg to be hosted in Abuja four days later.<\/p>\n<p>The winner over two legs will book one of Africa\u2019s five slots for the 2022 World Cup to be hosted in Qatar at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Di4Fn_uNoPY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This is so sad - Man explains why his fianc\u00e9 left him with a new born baby - Obra on Adom TV.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Di4Fn_uNoPY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majeed Ashimeru The Ghana Football Association [GFA] has confirmed that\u00a0Majeed Ashimeru was not named in Black Stars squad to face Nigeria in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers due to an injury. The Anderlecht midfielder, despite his fine form, was not named in the Black Stars squad for the crucial games this month. The decision by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1032369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6485,94,6540,6452,61,95],"class_list":["post-1032368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ashimeru","tag-black","tag-excluded","tag-majeed","tag-squad","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032368","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=1032368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}