{"id":1122931,"date":"2022-06-15T13:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/ghana-pockets-50000-for-participating-in-2022-kirin-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:04:30","slug":"ghana-pockets-50000-for-participating-in-2022-kirin-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/ghana-pockets-50000-for-participating-in-2022-kirin-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana pockets $50,000 for participating in 2022 Kirin Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"523\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BS-696x523.png\"   alt=\"Black Stars\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!--  --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2126537\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Ghana has been rewarded $50,000 as prize money for finishing in third place at the 2022 edition of the four-nation Kirin Cup Soccer invitational in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Having suffered a defeat in their opening game against the host country, the\u00a0Black Stars defeated South Americans Chile 3-1 on penalties after a draw in regulation time in a third place decider held at the Panasonic Stadium in Osaka Tuesday morning with nine players.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Manaf Nurudeen emerged the hero with two spot-kick saves for Ghana who finished the 90 minutes with nine men following second half red cards to defender Alidu Sediu and midfielder Mubarak Wakaso.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Ghana opened the tournament with a 4-1 defeat to hosts Japan on Friday, June 10.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tunisia thrashed Japan 3-0 in the final and pocketed $250,000 as prize money.<\/p>\n<p>The competition served as preparations for the Black Stars ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be staged in Qatar.<\/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=\"_kwu5bHMSM4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 9:55 AM on Adom TV (15-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kwu5bHMSM4?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>Black Stars Ghana has been rewarded $50,000 as prize money for finishing in third place at the 2022 edition of the four-nation Kirin Cup Soccer invitational in Japan. Having suffered a defeat in their opening game against the host country, the\u00a0Black Stars defeated South Americans Chile 3-1 on penalties after a draw in regulation time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,85,16461,6534,17717],"class_list":["post-1122931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-ghana","tag-kirin","tag-participating","tag-pockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122931","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=1122931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}