{"id":1082112,"date":"2022-05-10T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/govt-to-maintain-current-black-stars-technical-team-for-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:04:08","slug":"govt-to-maintain-current-black-stars-technical-team-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/govt-to-maintain-current-black-stars-technical-team-for-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t to maintain current Black Stars technical team for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"418\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Mustapha-Ussif-new-Sports-Minister-696x418.jpg\"   alt=\"Mustapha Ussif\" title=\"Mustapha Ussif\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mustapha Ussif<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, has announced that government and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) have agreed to maintain the current Black Stars technical team for the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He said he expects the GFA to finalise talks and announce to the public that there will be no changes to Ghana\u2019s technical team ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The GFA is currently negotiating with Dortmund to have Black Stars Coach Otto Addo lead the team to the 2022 World Cup on a part-time basis, although some have said they favour a full-time coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision by the Ministry is that, the GFA should maintain the technical team that got us to qualify for the World Cup. The GFA is working very closely with the technical team to come up with the arrangements.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery soon, they would announce officially, led by Otto Addo, to take us through the World Cup participation and also the AFCON next in Ivory Coast,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GFA, Sports Ministry to maintain current Black Stars technical team for 2022 World Cup by JoyNews\/AdomNews\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1264749436&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=696\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe decision by the Ministry is that, the GFA should maintain the technical team that got us to qualify for the World Cup. The GFA is working very closely with the technical team to come up with the arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery soon, they would announce officially, led by Otto Addo, to take us through the World Cup participation and also the AFCON next in Ivory Coast,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Otto-Addo-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Interim Black Stars head coach, Otto Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Entry to sports stadia has been an issue over the years because of the lack of a uniform ticketing platform that has incurred financial losses to the National Sports Authority (NSA) and sometimes stampedes at entry points.<\/p>\n<p>But the Minister assured that e-ticketing is the way to go now, stressing that government will not back down.<\/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=\"R39Ka-pVRiY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parliament Appeals To CLOSAG To Call Strike - Adom TV News (9-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R39Ka-pVRiY?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>Mustapha Ussif Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, has announced that government and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) have agreed to maintain the current Black Stars technical team for the 2022 World Cup. He said he expects the GFA to finalise talks and announce to the public that there will be no changes to Ghana\u2019s technical team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,262,3431,225,3368,95,97,98,784],"class_list":{"0":"post-1082112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-black","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-current","11":"tag-govt","12":"tag-maintain","13":"tag-stars","14":"tag-team","15":"tag-technical","16":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082112","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=1082112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}