{"id":1229976,"date":"2022-10-20T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/2022-wc-stay-away-from-sex\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:23:30","slug":"2022-wc-stay-away-from-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/2022-wc-stay-away-from-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 WC: Stay away from sex"},"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\/10\/Screenshot-2022-09-28-124514-696x460.png\"   alt=\"Black Stars\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Youth and\u00a0Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has warned Black Stars players to stay away from\u00a0women during the World Cup in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana that missed out in the last edition hosted in Russia has made a return to the global showpiece and has been housed in Group H alongside Portugal, Uruguay, and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Afriyie-Ankrah, who was the then Sports Minister during the 2014 World Cup, believes that wives and girlfriends can be a distraction for players.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He advises players to avoid bringing their partners to the tournament if they want to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team must be focused and dedicated for the World Cup period,\u201d the 55-year-old Ghanaian politician\u00a0told Ghana News Agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tournament for just a few weeks. The players should leave their wives and girlfriends for those few weeks. They should focus on bringing glory to Ghana and themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a privilege to don the national colours, and players should not think they are doing us a favour by representing Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Otto Addo has yet to name his preliminary tournament squad.<\/p>\n<p>They are scheduled to play a friendly match against Switzerland, which will be the team\u2019s final match before departing for Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The 22nd edition of the Mundial has been scheduled to kick off 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=\"eH99_KywI-s\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam News on Adom TV (20-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eH99_KywI-s?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>Black Stars Former Youth and\u00a0Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has warned Black Stars players to stay away from\u00a0women during the World Cup in 2022. Ghana that missed out in the last edition hosted in Russia has made a return to the global showpiece and has been housed in Group H alongside Portugal, Uruguay, and South Korea. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1017,1102],"class_list":["post-1229976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sex","tag-stay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229976","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=1229976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}