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– –<\/span> He excitedly uploaded a new video of himself where he was heard confirming that henceforth he\u2019ll be available for selection ahead of the World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n I\u00f1aki was born in Spain to Ghanaian parents and is eligible to play for the West African country.<\/p>\n He made his Spain debut on May 29, 2016. However, the striker had no further competitive appearance with Spain to tie him to the European nation. <\/p>\n – –<\/span> As a result, he was eligible for a nationality switch due to FIFA\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n I\u00f1aki had previously ditched the possibility of playing for Ghana when he was approached by the GFA, saying, \u201cMy parents are from Accra, and I really enjoy going.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cBut I wasn\u2019t born or raised there, my culture is here, and there are players who would mean more.<\/p>\n \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 – –<\/span> – – Months after he snubbed representing the Black Stars, Athletic Bilbao forward I\u00f1aki Williams has switched allegiance to Ghana and has promised to \u2018defend the shirt.\u2019 He excitedly uploaded a new video of himself where he was heard confirming that henceforth he\u2019ll be available for selection ahead of the World Cup in Qatar. I\u00f1aki […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[94,10744,85,7452,16707,2426,463,1383,335,95,4305],"class_list":["post-1142984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-black","tag-defend","tag-ghana","tag-ill","tag-inaki","tag-mind","tag-play","tag-proudly","tag-shirt","tag-stars","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142984","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=1142984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nMonths after he snubbed representing the Black Stars, Athletic Bilbao forward I\u00f1aki Williams has switched allegiance to Ghana and has promised to \u2018defend the shirt.\u2019<\/h2>\n
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