{"id":1139469,"date":"2022-07-01T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/01\/samuel-boadu-reveals-what-led-to-their-poor-africa-campaign-last-season\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:39:19","slug":"samuel-boadu-reveals-what-led-to-their-poor-africa-campaign-last-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/01\/samuel-boadu-reveals-what-led-to-their-poor-africa-campaign-last-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Boadu reveals what led to their poor Africa campaign last season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"402\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Boadu-696x402.png\"   alt=\"Samuel Boadu\" title=\"Samuel Boadu\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Boadu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Samuel Boadu, the head coach of Hearts of Oak has opened up on why the team\u2019s Africa campaign was unsuccessful last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Phobians, having won the 2020\/21 Ghana Premier League, represented the country in the CAF Champions League but failed to make it to the group phase.<\/p>\n<p>Having dropped into the Confederations Cup, Boadu and his charges suffered yet another embarrassing defeat as they failed to make it out of their group too.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on <strong>Asempa FM<\/strong>\u2018s <strong>Ultimate Sports Show<\/strong>, Mr Boadu said the lack of proper pre-season and injuries affected his side.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInjuries were a major problem for us and ew players did not get the time to have pre-season with the team,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we dropped from the Champions League, there was no time for us to prepare for the Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ghana Premier League was also in session so the pressure, injuries, and the lack of preseason affected our Africa campaign,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak will again represent the country in the CAF Confederations Cup having won the FA Cup against Bechem United.<\/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=\"JUMj_YBBgN8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gov&#039;t to sanction SOEs over failure to present audited accounts - Veep -  Adom TV (1-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JUMj_YBBgN8?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>Samuel Boadu Samuel Boadu, the head coach of Hearts of Oak has opened up on why the team\u2019s Africa campaign was unsuccessful last season. The Phobians, having won the 2020\/21 Ghana Premier League, represented the country in the CAF Champions League but failed to make it to the group phase. Having dropped into the Confederations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[671,5518,487,9750,184,51,2889,611],"class_list":["post-1139469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-boadu","tag-campaign","tag-led","tag-poor","tag-reveals","tag-samuel","tag-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139469","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=1139469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}