{"id":1142716,"date":"2022-07-05T21:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/inaki-williams-switch-nationality-to-play-for-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T21:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:06:50","slug":"inaki-williams-switch-nationality-to-play-for-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/inaki-williams-switch-nationality-to-play-for-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u00f1aki Williams Switch Nationality To Play For Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Athletic Bilbao forward, I\u00f1aki Williams has confirmed his intentions to play for the Black Stars of Ghana ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00f1aki was in Ghana at the start of June with his younger brother, Nico for vacation and held talks with the Ghana Football Association on a possible nationality switch.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on his Twitter page to confirm his decision, I\u00f1aki Williams said \u201ctoday a new challenge begins, from now onwards, I\u2019ll defend the shirt of Ghana\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00f1aki earlier expressed reservations about switching nationalities for Ghana in an interview last year, saying, \u201cMy parents are from Accra, and I really enjoy going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I wasn\u2019t born or raised there, my culture is here, and there are players who would mean more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it would be right to take the place of someone who really deserves to go and feels Ghana 100%,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, a lot has changed since the interview, including the Black Stars qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, a huge platform that many players dream of.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if Nico Williams, the younger brother of I\u00f1aki will follow suit and also represent the Black Stars of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars of Ghana are in Group H of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and will take on Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea in the group stage of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletic Bilbao forward, I\u00f1aki Williams has confirmed his intentions to play for the Black Stars of Ghana ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. I\u00f1aki was in Ghana at the start of June with his younger brother, Nico for vacation and held talks with the Ghana Football Association on a possible nationality switch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,16707,3049,463,95,1441,4305],"class_list":["post-1142716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-inaki","tag-nationality","tag-play","tag-stars","tag-switch","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142716","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=1142716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}