{"id":1113086,"date":"2022-06-07T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/07\/japan-tourney-i-wont-play-and-not-ready-to-go-augustine-okrah-snubs-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:56:15","slug":"japan-tourney-i-wont-play-and-not-ready-to-go-augustine-okrah-snubs-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/07\/japan-tourney-i-wont-play-and-not-ready-to-go-augustine-okrah-snubs-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Tourney: I Won&#8217;t Play And Not Ready To Go &#8211; Augustine Okrah Snubs Black Stars |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bechem United winger Augustine Okrah has rejected a call up to the Black Stars ahead of the four-nation tournament in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will be competing in the Krin tournament against hosts Japan, Chile and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Okrah was named to the initial 33-man squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Madagascar and Central Africa Republic.<\/p>\n<p>He was left out of Ghana&#8217;s 3-0 win over Madagascar in Cape Coast, as well as the squad that traveled to Angola for the 1-1 draw with the Central African Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The former Asante Kotoko winger was recalled to the team for the trip to Japan but has declined the invitation according to an official of Bechem United.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke to Okrah to go but the player says he won&#8217;t play and not ready to go&#8221;, Bechem United CEO Lord Ziko told the media.<\/p>\n<p>Black Stars will play Japan in the semi-finals, and if they win, they will face the winner of Tunisia vs. Chile in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The competition serves as part of preparations for the 2022 World Cup to be staged in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament kicks off from June 10-14, 2022.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Ghanasoccernet.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bechem United winger Augustine Okrah has rejected a call up to the Black Stars ahead of the four-nation tournament in Japan. Ghana will be competing in the Krin tournament against hosts Japan, Chile and Tunisia. Okrah was named to the initial 33-man squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Madagascar and Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1113088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6962,94,7064,16201,463,718,9212,95,773,1298],"class_list":["post-1113086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-augustine","tag-black","tag-japan","tag-okrah","tag-play","tag-ready","tag-snubs","tag-stars","tag-tourney","tag-wont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113086","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=1113086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}