{"id":1197288,"date":"2022-09-02T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/minister-endorses-new-black-stars-jersey\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:35:38","slug":"minister-endorses-new-black-stars-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/minister-endorses-new-black-stars-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Endorses New Black Stars Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Minister for Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, has revealed that Puma does not design jerseys without consulting the Ghana Football Association (GFA), and that he is confident \u201cin what they have done\u201d, in reaction to the new Ghana away jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The new Black Stars kit, which was released this week, sparked social media outrage, with the majority of Ghanaians criticising Puma.<\/p>\n<p>The jersey is predominantly red with a touch of yellow and green, and a box-like design in front of the shirt with the players\u2019 numbers imprinted on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know Puma before they release such kits they would have gone through all the processes that are required. And I can assure you that the FA technical department have taken notice of everything. Puma doesn\u2019t just get up to print what they\u2019ve done, it\u2019s the FA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry doesn\u2019t involve in the selection of football kits for our teams, it\u2019s the FA and I have confidence in what they\u2019ve done (<em>sic<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, has revealed that Puma does not design jerseys without consulting the Ghana Football Association (GFA), and that he is confident \u201cin what they have done\u201d, in reaction to the new Ghana away jersey. The new Black Stars kit, which was released this week, sparked social media outrage, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,1541,1107,1223,95],"class_list":["post-1197288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-endorses","tag-jersey","tag-minister","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197288","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=1197288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}