{"id":1225875,"date":"2022-10-16T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/16\/another-injury-blow-for-black-stars-ahead-of-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:25:31","slug":"another-injury-blow-for-black-stars-ahead-of-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/16\/another-injury-blow-for-black-stars-ahead-of-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Injury Blow For Black Stars Ahead of The World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The head coach of the Black Stars, Otto Addo has been dealt a huge blow ahead of fhe 2022 FIFA World Cup to be stage in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/137f4c3ebbec49a7ae855965ba100f8f\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars have been paired in group H alongside Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea for the tournament that starts in November.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars started their preparations with two international friendly games last month and had mixed results in both games.<\/p>\n<p>The first game against record World Cup holders, Brazil ended on a bad note with the Black Stars losing 3-0 in France.<\/p>\n<p>The second game against Central American side, Nicaragua produced some positives for Otto Addo after the team posted a 1-0 win in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars are set to play Switzerland in a final game to but it is likely they will not be having their fold Orlando Pirates goalkeeper, Richard Ofori for the friendly and the World Cup due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The ebony black goalkeeper sustained an injury while playing for Orlando Pirates against Amazulu.<\/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\">\nBrazil<br \/>\nCentral American<br \/>\nPortugal<br \/>\nUruguay<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head coach of the Black Stars, Otto Addo has been dealt a huge blow ahead of fhe 2022 FIFA World Cup to be stage in Qatar. The Black Stars have been paired in group H alongside Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea for the tournament that starts in November. The Black Stars started their preparations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1225876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[260,94,2165,262,2092,95,784],"class_list":["post-1225875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-ahead","tag-black","tag-blow","tag-cup","tag-injury","tag-stars","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225875","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=1225875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}