{"id":1085756,"date":"2022-05-13T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/13\/shift-attention-to-2023-afcon-qualifiers-former-midfielder-urges-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T08:09:07","slug":"shift-attention-to-2023-afcon-qualifiers-former-midfielder-urges-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/13\/shift-attention-to-2023-afcon-qualifiers-former-midfielder-urges-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShift Attention to 2023 AFCON Qualifiers\u201d &#8211; Former Midfielder Urges Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Ghana midfielder, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has urged Black Stars technical team to focus on the 2023 AFCON qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/596e82fe74d84db0895862a1f167024d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The road to C\u00f4te D\u2019Ivoire starts in June with the Black Stars paired against Central Africa Republic, Madagascar and Angola in group E. Badu believes Ghana\u2019s attention must be shifted to the next AFCON qualifiers as the 2022 FIFA World Cup slot in Qatar has already been secured.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3aedadb518b44fa59b4ca7638825e981\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the qualifiers next month and we need to concentrate on the qualifiers. \u201cWe have already qualified to the World Cup, we have seven months to the World Cup and in a month\u2019s time we have a very serious qualifiers. \u201cSo the most important thing is, we need to concentrate on the African Cup qualifiers, build a formidable squad that can compete at the world stage. \u201cThe most important thing is we have a promising squad and we just need to build on them, have one or two to come and add up to it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/df8300119e1846b783cd031551b43c60\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are willing play and those who the coach thinks he needs on board. \u201cAnd with these promising squad, young chaps we have, I think we can go far.\u201d Agyemang Badu told Adamu Muftawu of Radio Gold Sports. Ghana put up a dismal performance at the last AFCON held in Cameroon in 2021 where the four time champions exited at the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAFCON<br \/>\nE. Badu<br \/>\nEmmanuel Agyemang Badu<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghana midfielder, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has urged Black Stars technical team to focus on the 2023 AFCON qualifiers. The road to C\u00f4te D\u2019Ivoire starts in June with the Black Stars paired against Central Africa Republic, Madagascar and Angola in group E. Badu believes Ghana\u2019s attention must be shifted to the next AFCON qualifiers as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1085757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[93,2511,94,5054,3034,5803,95,985],"class_list":["post-1085756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-afcon","tag-attention","tag-black","tag-midfielder","tag-qualifiers","tag-shift","tag-stars","tag-urges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085756","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=1085756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}