{"id":1134378,"date":"2022-06-25T22:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/25\/black-starlets-beat-ivory-coast-to-win-bronze\/"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:59:46","slug":"black-starlets-beat-ivory-coast-to-win-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/25\/black-starlets-beat-ivory-coast-to-win-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Starlets beat Ivory Coast to win bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"399\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_2022-06-25_152807225-696x399.png\"   alt=\"Black Starlets WAFU B U17\/ Credit: Myjoyonline\" title=\"Black Starlets WAFU B U17\/ Credit: Myjoyonline\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Black Starlets defeated Ivory Coast 3-2 to claim the bronze medal in the WAFU Zone B U-17 tournament at the Cape Coast Stadium on Friday, June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana failed to secure a spot in next year\u2019s U-17 Africa Cup of Nations in Algeria following a loss to Burkina Faso in the semi-final stage of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>However, Paa Kwesi Fabin\u2019s side ensured a positive finish to their campaign on Friday, securing bronze medal after beating neighbours Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Rashid Adams scored to draw the Black Starlets levelled after Ivory Coast had taken the lead earlier in the game from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Richard Apokum put Ghana in the lead after the recess before Makhete Moustaha N\u2019Diaye equalised for Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Razak Salifu scored in stoppage time, securing a 3-2 win and the bronze medal for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>In the final of the tournament, Nigeria beat Burkina Faso with a 2-1 scoreline.<\/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=\"O66jOmil6WM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"50-year-old man found dead in a farm at Fumso \u2013 Adom TV News (25-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O66jOmil6WM?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>The Black Starlets defeated Ivory Coast 3-2 to claim the bronze medal in the WAFU Zone B U-17 tournament at the Cape Coast Stadium on Friday, June 24. Ghana failed to secure a spot in next year\u2019s U-17 Africa Cup of Nations in Algeria following a loss to Burkina Faso in the semi-final stage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1134380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[193,94,4372,1314,1316,16637,309],"class_list":["post-1134378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beat","tag-black","tag-bronze","tag-coast","tag-ivory","tag-starlets","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134378","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=1134378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}