{"id":1168420,"date":"2022-08-06T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/brighton-star-will-make-a-lot-of-difference-for-the-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:35:55","slug":"brighton-star-will-make-a-lot-of-difference-for-the-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/brighton-star-will-make-a-lot-of-difference-for-the-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBrighton Star Will Make a Lot of Difference For The Black Stars\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s head coach, Otto Addo had a squad boost when Brighton and Holve Albion defender, Tariq Lamptey switched allegiance from England to play for the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/d039a73965bc4250a4087358b170ec69\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lamptey, 21, was among a few players announced by the Ghana FA President, Kurt Okraku to have switched nationality to play for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Experienced BBC Sports journalist, John Bennett in an interview with Radio Gold TalkSport, believes the diminutive right-back will be a good addition to the Black Stars for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9ebcf3a3f7704dda84247a30392bbf47\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to see him [Tariq Lamptey] in the Black Stars shirt ahead of the [FIFA] World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he can really make a difference down the right hand side for Ghana.\u201d John Bennett told Gold TalkSport.<\/p>\n<p>Lamptey was born in England to Ghanaian parents. He has been a youth international for England, having represented the Young Lions from U18 to U21 level.<\/p>\n<p>He has Andy Yiadom of Reading, Denis Odoi of Club Brugge to contend with at Black Stars right back should he be named in the World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBrighton Star<br \/>\nEngland<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGhana FA<br \/>\nOtto Addo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s head coach, Otto Addo had a squad boost when Brighton and Holve Albion defender, Tariq Lamptey switched allegiance from England to play for the Black Stars. Lamptey, 21, was among a few players announced by the Ghana FA President, Kurt Okraku to have switched nationality to play for Ghana. Experienced BBC Sports journalist, John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,7543,7767,2633,209,95],"class_list":["post-1168420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-black","tag-brighton","tag-difference","tag-lot","tag-star","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168420","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=1168420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}