{"id":1147254,"date":"2022-07-12T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T10:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/12\/my-exclusion-from-black-stars-squad-finished-me\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T10:27:56","slug":"my-exclusion-from-black-stars-squad-finished-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/12\/my-exclusion-from-black-stars-squad-finished-me\/","title":{"rendered":"My exclusion from Black Stars squad finished me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"928\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-05-09-at-2.50.24-PM-768x1024-1-696x928.jpeg\"   alt=\"Laryea Kingston\" title=\"Laryea Kingston\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laryea Kingston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Ghana international, Laryea Kingston,\u00a0says he is yet to understand why he was left out of Black Stars squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The former Great Olympics and the Hearts of Oak winger was a key member of the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Having missed out in the 2006 Mundial in Germany, Kingston came back stronger and played a vital role under Milovan Rajevac when Ghana secured a place in the global showpiece in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing in the World Cup qualifiers and even making the provisional squad for the World Cup, he was sent home after failing to make the cut for the final 23-man squad.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Recalling the events from a decade ago, Laryea said missing out on a place in the 2010 World Cup squad broke him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2010 World Cup was the one that finished me. Immediately after the 2006 World Cup, I joined the team again and I played all the games in the qualifiers, the friendly games and I was out again,\u201d\u00a0he told MX24 TV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not on suspension and I don\u2019t know what happened. A day before they moved to South Africa, I was asked to go home. I am still searching for answers and criteria they used to take me out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laryea added:\u00a0\u201cI look at the squad and I don\u2019t see myself going out of the 23-man squad. I was playing regularly on my team, I don\u2019t like talking about this but it\u2019s the decision of whoever made that decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that keeps ringing in my head because if you ask me if I enjoyed my career I would say yes apart from me not enjoying the World Cup and that is it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laryea Kingston recently acquired a UEFA B coaching license.<\/p>\n<p>Currently a youth team coach at the Right to Dream Academy, Laryea said he hopes to win something with Ghana as a manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know as a coach I would win something for Ghana,\u201d he added.<\/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=\"6PbpECSQwZM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Media Review on Adom TV (12-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PbpECSQwZM?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>Laryea Kingston Former Ghana international, Laryea Kingston,\u00a0says he is yet to understand why he was left out of Black Stars squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The former Great Olympics and the Hearts of Oak winger was a key member of the Black Stars. Having missed out in the 2006 Mundial in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1147256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,6538,11560,61,95],"class_list":["post-1147254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-exclusion","tag-finished","tag-squad","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147254","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=1147254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}