{"id":1214047,"date":"2022-09-30T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/what-my-grandfather-told-me-after-making-ghana-debut\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:42:26","slug":"what-my-grandfather-told-me-after-making-ghana-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/what-my-grandfather-told-me-after-making-ghana-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"What my grandfather told me after making Ghana debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"460\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-114825-696x460.png\"   alt=\"Inaki Williams against Brazil\" title=\"Inaki Williams against Brazil\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inaki Williams against Brazil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Athletic Bilbao striker, Inaki Williams, has revealed\u00a0that his grandfather told him he can now die in peace after watching him make his debut for Black Stars of\u00a0Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish-born forward, after switching nationality, made his debut for Ghana in a friendly against Brazil last Friday at the Le Harve in France, a game that ended 3-0 against the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>However, the experienced striker started his first game for Ghana on Tuesday in a narrow 1-0 victory against Nicaragua in the second September friendly game.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Movistar Futbol<\/em> in an interview, the strike said his grandfather was delighted to see him wear the Ghana jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandfather told me that he could die in peace when he saw me in the Ghana national team shirt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, in June this year, announced his decision to play for the four-time African champions.<\/p>\n<p>In the two games played, the forward put up a very good performance against Brazil and Nicaragua. Williams will be in action when Athletic Bilbao host Almeria in the Spanish La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to make Ghana\u2019s squad for the 2022 World Cup which kicks off on November 20 to December 18.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/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=\"4ID5UyT025M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CLOGSAF accuses gov\u2019t of creating parallel work for political apparatchiks, goro boys (29-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ID5UyT025M?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>Inaki Williams against Brazil Athletic Bilbao striker, Inaki Williams, has revealed\u00a0that his grandfather told him he can now die in peace after watching him make his debut for Black Stars of\u00a0Ghana. The Spanish-born forward, after switching nationality, made his debut for Ghana in a friendly against Brazil last Friday at the Le Harve in France, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3210,85,26666,5113,464],"class_list":["post-1214047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-debut","tag-ghana","tag-grandfather","tag-making","tag-told"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214047","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=1214047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}