{"id":1205049,"date":"2022-09-15T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/my-dream-is-to-see-an-african-country-win-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:30:52","slug":"my-dream-is-to-see-an-african-country-win-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/my-dream-is-to-see-an-african-country-win-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"My dream is to see an African country win the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"444\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1663252252_636_306966493_634919861324656_1950581977983900197_n-696x444.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Evra Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Former France international, Patrice Evra, says his dream is to see an African country win the Fifa World Cup someday to come.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Manchester United defender is in the West African country for a four-day special visit to Ghana as part of his plans to promote his new book, \u2018I Love The Game\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Evra and his team visited the seat of government in Accra, the Jubilee House on Wednesday, September 14.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He had a meeting with the President of the Republic, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and indicated that he hopes an African country will win the FIFA World Cup one day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dream like I said is maybe one African team will one day win the World Cup. It\u2019s not the last time I\u2019m going to be here. It\u2019s such a beautiful country and thanks for having us,\u201d Patrice Evra said.<\/p>\n<p>He further indicated that he wants to help change the bad narrative around Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dream now is also to change the image of Africa. That\u2019s why I have been to Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria, and now Ghana,\u201d Patrice Evra added.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2022 World Cup scheduled to be played in Qatar, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Morocco will represent Africa in the Mundial from November 20 to December 18.<\/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=\"cm8Ik0scIgw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Suame Magazine: Artisans at section of Zone 12 enclave resist attempt to evict them (14-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cm8Ik0scIgw?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>Former France international, Patrice Evra, says his dream is to see an African country win the Fifa World Cup someday to come. The ex-Manchester United defender is in the West African country for a four-day special visit to Ghana as part of his plans to promote his new book, \u2018I Love The Game\u2019. Evra and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[461,1721,262,877,309,784],"class_list":["post-1205049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-african","tag-country","tag-cup","tag-dream","tag-win","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205049","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=1205049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}