{"id":1062152,"date":"2022-04-20T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/black-stars-will-qualify-for-2023-afcon-mark-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T16:34:07","slug":"black-stars-will-qualify-for-2023-afcon-mark-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/black-stars-will-qualify-for-2023-afcon-mark-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars will qualify for 2023 AFCON \u2013 Mark Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FOfbAstX0AIYMij-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Black Stars players\" title=\"Black Stars players\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars players<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Black Stars management committee chairman, Mark Addo, has said he is confident the national team will qualify for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON].<\/p>\n<p>The four-time African champions have been paired with Angola, Madagascar, and Central African Republic in Group E.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football [CAF] announced the group qualifying matches for next year\u2019s edition of the continent\u2019s flagship competition after a draw held in Johannesburg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 12 groups consisting of four teams each will be competing against each other home and away with the top two sides set to qualifforto AFCON 2023 in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Despite the poor performance in Cameroon during the 2021 AFCON, the vice president of the Ghana Football Association [GFA] says the team will book a qualification and put up a better performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not underrating any side in our group but I am confident the team will qualify for the tournament,\u201d he said on <strong>Asempa FM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a tricky group but we will ensure we make it to Ivory Coast and put up a better performance,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will be hoping to end their 40 years trophy drought in Ivory Coast after a poor campaign in Yaound\u00e9.<\/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=\"wm2maZxt2ag\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Panpanso Number 1 Demolishing - Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (20-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wm2maZxt2ag?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 players Black Stars management committee chairman, Mark Addo, has said he is confident the national team will qualify for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON]. The four-time African champions have been paired with Angola, Madagascar, and Central African Republic in Group E. The Confederation of African Football [CAF] announced the group qualifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[543,93,94,627,2251,95],"class_list":["post-1062152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-addo","tag-afcon","tag-black","tag-mark","tag-qualify","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062152","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=1062152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}