{"id":1058513,"date":"2022-04-17T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/17\/ghana-handed-tough-opponents-in-group-a\/"},"modified":"2022-04-17T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T10:55:07","slug":"ghana-handed-tough-opponents-in-group-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/17\/ghana-handed-tough-opponents-in-group-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana handed tough opponents in Group A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"509\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FKDKv6aXEAQLKBm.jpeg\"   alt=\"Black Satellites\" title=\"Black Satellites\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Satellites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Black Satellites of Ghana have been drawn in Group A alongside Nigeria and Togo ahead of the 2022 WAFU Zone B U-20 qualifiers in Niger.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament hosts Niger will square off with Ivory Coast, Benin and Burkina Faso in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The draw was held in Niamey, Niger on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The two weeks tournament is scheduled to kick start from May 7-20 in Niger.<\/p>\n<p>It will serve as the preliminaries for the U20 AFCON to be staged in Egypt from 18 February-March 12 where the winners, first and second runners get the node from West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana won the previous edition held in Benin 2021 and went on to grab the U-20 AFCON in Mauritius.<\/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=\"2DLSIV3ey4I\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DLSIV3ey4I?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 Satellites The Black Satellites of Ghana have been drawn in Group A alongside Nigeria and Togo ahead of the 2022 WAFU Zone B U-20 qualifiers in Niger. Tournament hosts Niger will square off with Ivory Coast, Benin and Burkina Faso in Group B. The draw was held in Niamey, Niger on Friday afternoon. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,516,7674,781,3558],"class_list":["post-1058513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ghana","tag-group","tag-handed","tag-opponents","tag-tough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058513","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=1058513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}