{"id":1187551,"date":"2022-08-23T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/switzerland-confirm-pre-world-cup-friendly-against-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:18:20","slug":"switzerland-confirm-pre-world-cup-friendly-against-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/switzerland-confirm-pre-world-cup-friendly-against-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland Confirm Pre-World Cup Friendly Against Ghana |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Swiss Football Association has confirmed that their senior national team will face Ghana in a pre-World Cup friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss FA announced on Monday that the game will be played in Abu Dhabi on November 17 \u2014 one week before the teams&#8217; first World Cup group games.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association announced the\u00a0friendly in July,\u00a0and their counterparts confirmed it a month later.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup begins on November 20, but Switzerland does not play until November 24 in Group G against Cameroon, a west African team like Ghana. Brazil and Serbia are also members of the group.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana are in Group H and will play Portugal on November 24. Ghana also have games against South Korea and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>There is only a one-week window of preparation for the 32 countries competing in Qatar, with players joining up with their national teams from 13 November.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana played two friendlies after last month&#8217;s qualifiers for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, but an injury-affected and Covid-hit side lost 4-1 to Japan and then beat Chile on penalties after a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time African champions will face Brazil in a friendly next month in London.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Ghanasoccernet.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss Football Association has confirmed that their senior national team will face Ghana in a pre-World Cup friendly. The Swiss FA announced on Monday that the game will be played in Abu Dhabi on November 17 \u2014 one week before the teams&#8217; first World Cup group games. The Ghana Football Association announced the\u00a0friendly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3927,262,386,85,21991,16277],"class_list":["post-1187551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-confirm","tag-cup","tag-friendly","tag-ghana","tag-preworld","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187551","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=1187551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}