{"id":1113712,"date":"2022-06-07T17:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/07\/european-born-players-are-welcomed-to-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T17:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:21:43","slug":"european-born-players-are-welcomed-to-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/07\/european-born-players-are-welcomed-to-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"European born players are welcomed to Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Tariq-Lamptey.png\"   alt=\"Tariq Lamptey\" title=\"Tariq Lamptey\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tariq Lamptey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thomas Partey says he is ready to welcome Ghanaian players born abroad to the national team, the Black Stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association [GFA] have been in\u00a0talks with a number of Ghanaian players with European allegiance to switch nationality and represent their African heritage ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Callum Hudson-Odoi, Brighton\u2019s Tariq Lamptey and Arsenal\u2019s Eddie Nketiah have been linked to the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Despite accepting to welcome them, Partey said they have to be committed to their decision.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody has their career, you can\u2019t push somebody to do something they are not ready to do so if they come, they are welcome because we really need them, we need all the players \u2013 everyone ready to play for Ghana, we need them and we are very much happy to receive whoever is ready to play for Ghana,\u201d Thomas Partey told JoySports.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tariq Lamptey, according to media reports, has completed his nationality switch to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Inaki brothers are also in Ghana ahead of an imminent nationality switch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/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=\"VI0BKWOsmZA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (7-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VI0BKWOsmZA?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>Tariq Lamptey Thomas Partey says he is ready to welcome Ghanaian players born abroad to the national team, the Black Stars.\u00a0 The Ghana Football Association [GFA] have been in\u00a0talks with a number of Ghanaian players with European allegiance to switch nationality and represent their African heritage ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,1524,4107,190,95,13424],"class_list":["post-1113712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-born","tag-european","tag-players","tag-stars","tag-welcomed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113712","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=1113712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}