The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced a planned nationwide fasting and prayers for the Black Stars ahead of their participation in the 2022 Qatar World Cup.<\/p>\n
This forms part of a series of activities to usher the senior national team into the upcoming tournament.<\/p>\n
In a line-up issued by the local football governing body, the spiritual activity will span two days; starting Friday 21st October, 2022.<\/p>\n On Friday, Islamic prayers will be said for the team, after which Christians will also be expected to fast and intercede for the team the following day; Sunday October 23, 2022.<\/p>\n The two-day prayers will be preceded by two separate events of \u2018rep your jersey\u2019.<\/p>\n The line up of events will be climaxed by a \u2018Dinner with the legends\u2019 on Saturday, 29th October, 2022.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, scores of Ghanaians on social media have questioned the relevance of the scheduled prayers for the Black Stars.<\/p>\n According to them, the authorities and handlers of the team must focus more on developing the physical capacities of the players, instead of the announced fasting and prayers.<\/p>\n Others have however lauded the initiative; stating that it is prudent for the country to seek divine intervention ahead of the team\u2019s participation in this year\u2019s World Cup tournament.<\/p>\n Ghana\u2019s participation in the 2022 FIFA World Cup fiesta will mark the country\u2019s fourth participation in the global football event.<\/p>\n In the 2006 and 2010 campaigns, the stars dazzled football lovers with very impressive performances in their games against other competitors.<\/p>\n However, the team\u2019s last campaign in 2014 was an unsuccessful one, which stirred angst amongst supporters.<\/p>\n Ghanaians are therefore hopeful of brighter prospects in the upcoming tournament which starts in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced a planned nationwide fasting and prayers for the Black Stars ahead of their participation in the 2022 Qatar World Cup. This forms part of a series of activities to usher the senior national team into the upcoming tournament. In a line-up issued by the local football governing body, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230000","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=1230000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Qatar](\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Pre-World-Cup-activities-for-the-Black-Stars-for-Qatar-2022-819x1024.jpeg\" "\\"Qatar")
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