{"id":1063900,"date":"2022-04-22T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/2023-afcon-ghana-are-favourite-in-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:06:13","slug":"2023-afcon-ghana-are-favourite-in-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/2023-afcon-ghana-are-favourite-in-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 AFCON: Ghana are favourite in qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/goncalves.jpg\"   alt=\"Pedro Goncalves\" title=\"Pedro Goncalves\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedro Goncalves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Angola\u2019s national football team head coach, Pedro Goncalves, has tipped the\u00a0Black Stars of Ghana as favourites to qualify out of Group E of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON].<\/p>\n<p>The group has Madagascar and the Central African Republic in Group E as the other opponents, with the top two teams guaranteed qualification to next year\u2019s competition in the Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Goncalves believes the Palancas Negras, who failed to qualify for the last AFCON, will have to fight for the second slot in the group because the Black Stars are favourites to secure top spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana is a very powerful national team in Africa; one of the five teams representing Africa at the World Cup. So sure, they are favourites.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe between Angola, Madagascar and Central African Republic, it will be a big fight but I believe we will make it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Afcon qualifiers start in June 2022 and conclude in March, 2023. The tournament is slated for June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will open their 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Group E qualifiers against Madagascar at home.<\/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=\"JP-nD-gfjeQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russia-Ukraine War, Covid 19 not to blame for Unemployment Crisis - TUC - Badwam Mpensenpensemu\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JP-nD-gfjeQ?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>Pedro Goncalves Angola\u2019s national football team head coach, Pedro Goncalves, has tipped the\u00a0Black Stars of Ghana as favourites to qualify out of Group E of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON]. The group has Madagascar and the Central African Republic in Group E as the other opponents, with the top two teams guaranteed qualification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,771,85,3034],"class_list":["post-1063900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-favourite","tag-ghana","tag-qualifiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063900","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=1063900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}