{"id":1050504,"date":"2022-04-09T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/09\/otto-addo-reveals-why-black-stars-failed-at-2021-afcon\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:02:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T11:02:01","slug":"otto-addo-reveals-why-black-stars-failed-at-2021-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/09\/otto-addo-reveals-why-black-stars-failed-at-2021-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto Addo reveals why Black Stars failed at 2021 Afcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"470\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FJadQ1FXIAMxEFw-1.jpg\"   alt=\"Black Stars\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Interim Ghana coach, Otto Addo, says the Black Stars\u2019 poor performance at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] was a collection of bad circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time African champions for the first time in 2006 failed to progress to the group phase of the continent\u2019s most prestigious tournament in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana who were in Group C alongside Morocco, Gabon and Comoros failed to win a game and exited the tournament with just a point.<\/p>\n<p>Addo, 46, who steered the Black Stars to secure a qualification for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar believes the team performed poorly but it was a collection of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] was a collection of bad circumstances, one came after the other and they were very unlucky,\u201d he said as reported by\u00a0<em><strong>CAFOnline.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe performance was poor but a lot of bad luck also worked against us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana opened their AFCON campaign with a defeat against Morocco. In the second group game, the Black Stars were held to a 1-1 drawn game against Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>In the final group game, Comoros shocked the Black Stars with a 3-2 win.<\/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=\"msI3ZCzEN2c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kaneshie Flooding: Market women blame road contractor for shoddy work \u2013 Adom TV News (8-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msI3ZCzEN2c?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>Black Stars Interim Ghana coach, Otto Addo, says the Black Stars\u2019 poor performance at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] was a collection of bad circumstances. The four-time African champions for the first time in 2006 failed to progress to the group phase of the continent\u2019s most prestigious tournament in Cameroon. Ghana who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[543,93,94,2130,3250,51,95],"class_list":["post-1050504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-addo","tag-afcon","tag-black","tag-failed","tag-otto","tag-reveals","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050504","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=1050504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}