{"id":1164451,"date":"2022-08-03T10:05:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/03\/2023-chanq-we-are-ready-for-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T10:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:05:20","slug":"2023-chanq-we-are-ready-for-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/03\/2023-chanq-we-are-ready-for-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 CHANQ: We are ready for Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"545\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1659521120_997_Screenshot-2022-08-01-102302-696x545.png\"   alt=\"Black Galaxies\" title=\"Black Galaxies\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Galaxies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Black Galaxies captain, Gladson Awako, has reiterated that the playing body is ready for their upcoming clash against Nigeria in the CHAN qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Having secured a 4-0 win aggregate over Benin, Ghana will come up against their sworn rivals, Nigeria in the final round of the preliminary games.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, the Hearts of Oak playmaker admitted games between Ghana and Nigeria are always tough and competitive but reiterated with so much optimism that, they are ready for the task ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will give thanks to God because it wasn\u2019t easy,\u201d he told Accra-based Original FM. \u201cThey gave us a very tough game but we stayed disciplined and listened to what they taught us. I think it has helped us to win.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not done yet. We will continue to prepare well and do what we are supposed to do so that we can give Nigeria tough competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows how Ghana and Nigeria game is. We have to prepare well so that we can beat them to progress into the competition,\u201d the former Great Olympics captain added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana recorded a 3-0 win at the Cape Coast Stadium in the first leg before beating the Squirrels 1-0 in the return leg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Black Galaxies will come up against Nigeria later this month. Ghana last finished 2nd in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 CHAN will be hosted in Algeria.<\/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=\"3awRr9-_dfc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Up-close with Cwesi Oteng - Gospel Musician - Mahyease on AdomTV (3-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3awRr9-_dfc?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>Black Galaxies Black Galaxies captain, Gladson Awako, has reiterated that the playing body is ready for their upcoming clash against Nigeria in the CHAN qualifiers. Having secured a 4-0 win aggregate over Benin, Ghana will come up against their sworn rivals, Nigeria in the final round of the preliminary games. Speaking in an interview, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20728,633,718],"class_list":["post-1164451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chanq","tag-nigeria","tag-ready"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164451","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=1164451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}