{"id":1199292,"date":"2022-09-06T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/breaking-atletico-bilbao-forward-gets-black-stars-call-up\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:58:12","slug":"breaking-atletico-bilbao-forward-gets-black-stars-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/breaking-atletico-bilbao-forward-gets-black-stars-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Atletico Bilbao Forward Gets Black Stars Call up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Athletic Bilbao forward, Inaki Williams has earned his debut Black Stars call up ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be staged in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/9296823d10af4d3e9d1e4dcf7d68e694\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old switched nationality to play for Ghana after several years rejecting the offer to play for his country of birth.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars of Ghana have been paired against South Korea, Uruguay and Portugal for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be staged in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will play two friendly games before they kick start their World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/50690dbafb8d4d338ba023a728ae078a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They will play five time and record World Cup title holders, Brazil in the friendly game before taking on Nicaragua in the second friendly game.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will be making a fourth World Cup appearance after three consecutive outings in 2006,2010 and 2014 in Germany, South Africa and Brazil respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s best performance was a quarter final place finish at the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa where they were eliminated by Uruguay.<\/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\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletic Bilbao forward, Inaki Williams has earned his debut Black Stars call up ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be staged in Qatar. The 28-year-old switched nationality to play for Ghana after several years rejecting the offer to play for his country of birth. The Black Stars of Ghana have been paired against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6214,1975,94,316,160,95],"class_list":["post-1199292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-atletico","tag-bilbao","tag-black","tag-breaking","tag-call","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199292","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=1199292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}