{"id":1201126,"date":"2022-09-09T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T07:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/09\/did-you-know-new-chelsea-coach-worked-with-black-queens\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T07:46:47","slug":"did-you-know-new-chelsea-coach-worked-with-black-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/09\/did-you-know-new-chelsea-coach-worked-with-black-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know new Chelsea coach worked with Black Queens?"},"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\/09\/download-4-696x392.png\"   alt=\"Graham Potter\" title=\"Graham Potter\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graham Potter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Research by the Joy Sports desk has revealed that newly appointed Chelsea coach Graham Potter worked with the Black Queens as a technical director for the 2007 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Potter, who has signed a five-year deal as Chelsea head coach, arrived in Ghana weeks before the 2007 Women\u2019s World Cup to help the team prepare.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, he was Hull University\u2019s football development manager. Potter was responsible for the technical and tactical training programme, match preparation, and team selection for the Black Queens ahead of the Mundial.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Graham Potter was the technical director for the \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded Black Queens at the 2007 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup. He was responsible for the technical and tactical training programme, match preparation and team selection. At the time, Potter was Hull University&#8217;s football development manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fCyPYTdvRg\">pic.twitter.com\/fCyPYTdvRg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Owuraku Ampofo (@_owurakuampofo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_owurakuampofo\/status\/1567879341236682753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The former Brighton and Hove Albion coach became the first person outside Ghana to join the technical bench of the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Queens finished bottom of Group C at the World Cup after losing to Australia, Canada, and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Potter moved on to become an assistant coach for the England Universities squad.<\/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=\"7QvUQ-1xHK4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FDA urged to intensify surveillance to save students from poisoned maize eating (8-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7QvUQ-1xHK4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Potter Research by the Joy Sports desk has revealed that newly appointed Chelsea coach Graham Potter worked with the Black Queens as a technical director for the 2007 Women\u2019s World Cup. Potter, who has signed a five-year deal as Chelsea head coach, arrived in Ghana weeks before the 2007 Women\u2019s World Cup to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,58,1763,8655,8533],"class_list":["post-1201126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-chelsea","tag-coach","tag-queens","tag-worked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201126","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=1201126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}