{"id":1194904,"date":"2022-08-30T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/30\/im-not-ready-to-play-for-the-local-black-stars-now-ex-hellas-verona-star\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:49:02","slug":"im-not-ready-to-play-for-the-local-black-stars-now-ex-hellas-verona-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/30\/im-not-ready-to-play-for-the-local-black-stars-now-ex-hellas-verona-star\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m Not Ready to Play For The Local Black Stars Now\u201d &#8211; Ex-Hellas Verona Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Black Stars midfielder, Agyemang Badu says he is not fit enough to play for the home based senior national team, the Black Galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old joined local club, Great Olympics until the end of the 2022\/23 Ghana Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.6chcdn.feednews.com\/assets\/v2\/814ef37ef6a74f34acac25f802754e7a?quality=uhq&#038;resize=720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The former Berekum Arsenal and Asante Kotoko star says he is focused on his fitness level and to help the youngsters develop their confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now I\u2019m not ready, my fitness level is very important to me right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just joined the club [Great Olympics] one week ago and I need to concentrate on Olympics right now to help them get a respectable position on the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd to help the guys to grow, that is my ambition for now.\u201d Agyemang Badu told Radio Gold Talk Sport.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/46ad5561cd1d4567b592a5afff5573b5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Black Galaxies have a 2-0 advantage against Nigeria from the first leg of the Championship for Africa Nations with the reverse fixture set for Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Badu has played in Italy for Udinese and Hellas Verona as well as Bursaspor of Turkey and Quindao fc of China.<\/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\">\nBerekum Arsenal<br \/>\nBlack Galaxies<br \/>\nBlack Stars<br \/>\nGhana Premier League<br \/>\nGreat Olympics<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Black Stars midfielder, Agyemang Badu says he is not fit enough to play for the home based senior national team, the Black Galaxies. The 30-year-old joined local club, Great Olympics until the end of the 2022\/23 Ghana Premier League season. The former Berekum Arsenal and Asante Kotoko star says he is focused on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,24756,278,463,718,209,95,8116],"class_list":["post-1194904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-black","tag-exhellas","tag-local","tag-play","tag-ready","tag-star","tag-stars","tag-verona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194904","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=1194904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}