{"id":1209122,"date":"2022-09-22T13:35:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/playing-brazil-a-good-test-for-black-stars-ahead-of-2022-wc\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:35:45","slug":"playing-brazil-a-good-test-for-black-stars-ahead-of-2022-wc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/playing-brazil-a-good-test-for-black-stars-ahead-of-2022-wc\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Brazil a good test for Black Stars ahead of 2022 WC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"466\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-110625-696x466.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2022-09-22 110625\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ghana defender, Gideon Mensah, believes the friendly game against Brazil will prove the Black Stars\u2019 readiness for the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The West African country will take on the five-time world champions in an international friendly on Friday, September 23 at the La Harve in France.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0AJ Auxerre left back, speaking ahead of the game, believes the game against Tite\u2019s side will be a real test and will prepare them ahead of the Mundial.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying against a country like Brazil is a good test for Ghana, going to the World Cup it\u2019s a good choice for Ghana,\u201d he told Ghana FA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI give thumbs up to the GFA for giving us this opportunity to play against a team like Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mensah also spoke on the readiness of the team ahead of the clash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing ready means, we are going to compete against the best countries in the World Cup so playing against Brazil on Friday is going to be a good test for us so for sure we are fired up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The game has been scheduled to kick off at 18:30GMT.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will on Tuesday, September 27 take on Nicaragua in Spain in their second friendly tie.<\/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=\"LURTxI3Cn8g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shea Tree Conservation: Oxfam, partners resource 40 people to undergo grafting training (21-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LURTxI3Cn8g?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>Ghana defender, Gideon Mensah, believes the friendly game against Brazil will prove the Black Stars\u2019 readiness for the 2022 World Cup. The West African country will take on the five-time world champions in an international friendly on Friday, September 23 at the La Harve in France. The\u00a0AJ Auxerre left back, speaking ahead of the game, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[260,94,5625,333,3160,95,1292],"class_list":["post-1209122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ahead","tag-black","tag-brazil","tag-good","tag-playing","tag-stars","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209122","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=1209122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}