{"id":1100036,"date":"2022-05-26T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/26\/eddie-nketiah-set-for-stars-showdown\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:37:25","slug":"eddie-nketiah-set-for-stars-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/26\/eddie-nketiah-set-for-stars-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Nketiah Set For Stars Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Eddie Nketiah\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UK-based performance Coach, Freddy Twum, says Arsenal star, Eddie Nketiah, will play for Ghana ahead of the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Twum, a personal trainer of the Arsenal forward, has dropped a big hint on the possibility of the striker joining the four-time Africa champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point, Eddie Nketiah will come, but I hope it will be before the World Cup,\u201d Twum told <em>Happy FM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWhen he comes, it will really help the Black Stars. Jordan Ayew is fading out, and if he (Nketiah) comes it will really help us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The British-born Ghanaian has been on the radar of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) for some time now, with the FA stating to have identified him as a possible addition to the Black Stars team.<\/p>\n<p>The attempts to convince the player to play for Ghana have yielded no positive feedback yet, with the GFA still continuing their pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Nketiah, Callum Hudson-Odoi of Chelsea, Tariq Lamptey of Brighton, and the Inaki brothers are among players, that the GFA are engaging in talks over potential nationality switches according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Several media outlets in the UK and Ghana have all reported on England losing out on the Arsenal forward to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, England manager, Gareth Southgate\u2019s recent squad for the upcoming Nations League fixtures, with Ghana targets, Eddie Nketiah, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Tariq Lamptey missing out makes them potential Qatar bound for the Stars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Nketiah\u00a0 UK-based performance Coach, Freddy Twum, says Arsenal star, Eddie Nketiah, will play for Ghana ahead of the 2022 World Cup. Twum, a personal trainer of the Arsenal forward, has dropped a big hint on the possibility of the striker joining the four-time Africa champions. \u201cAt some point, Eddie Nketiah will come, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[8570,8572,618,2255,95],"class_list":["post-1100036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eddie","tag-nketiah","tag-set","tag-showdown","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100036","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=1100036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}