{"id":1195653,"date":"2022-08-31T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/inaki-williams-black-stars-debut-in-doubt-after-injury\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:06:11","slug":"inaki-williams-black-stars-debut-in-doubt-after-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/inaki-williams-black-stars-debut-in-doubt-after-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaki Williams&#8217; Black Stars debut in doubt after injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IW-696x392.png\"   alt=\"Inaki Williams\" title=\"Inaki Williams\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inaki Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Inaki Williams\u2019 Black Stars debut has been left in doubt after suffering an injury for the first time in six years on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old, who scored his first goal of the season, could not finish the game\u00a0in their 4-0 win over Cadiz. Williams was replaced in the 54th minute.<\/p>\n<p>According to the club,\u00a0Williams has sprained a ligament in his right ankle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>According to reports, he is expected to sit out for up to six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The energetic and promising striker recently announced his decision to represent Ghana and will undergo further evaluation over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking run of 236 consecutive La Liga appearances could be about to end as the striker is set to sit out some games.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars, as part of their preparations for the World Cup, will play Switzerland, Brazil, and Nicaragua in an international friendly.<\/p>\n<p>However, Williams is likely to miss\u00a0the games due to the injury but he is expected to make the squad for the Mundial in Qatar later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana has been housed in Group H alongside Portugal, South Korea, and Uruguay.<\/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=\"x_JwCgIPUKA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mystery Death: Corpse of 20-year-old man found in Yendi area, alarming residents (30-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_JwCgIPUKA?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>Inaki Williams Inaki Williams\u2019 Black Stars debut has been left in doubt after suffering an injury for the first time in six years on Monday night. The 28-year-old, who scored his first goal of the season, could not finish the game\u00a0in their 4-0 win over Cadiz. Williams was replaced in the 54th minute. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,3210,398,16707,2092,95,4305],"class_list":["post-1195653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-debut","tag-doubt","tag-inaki","tag-injury","tag-stars","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195653","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=1195653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}