{"id":1230512,"date":"2022-10-21T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T09:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/qatar-2022-senegal-captain-talks-tough\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T09:59:37","slug":"qatar-2022-senegal-captain-talks-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/qatar-2022-senegal-captain-talks-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar 2022: Senegal Captain Talks Tough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kalidou Koulibaly <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senegal captain and Chelsea defender Kalidou Koulibaly says the Teranga Lions are aiming to become the first African nation to win the World Cup, with the tournament in Qatar exactly a month away.<\/p>\n<p>No side from the continent has ever made it past the quarter-finals, with Cameroon (1990), Senegal (2002) and most recently Ghana (2010) knocked out in the last eight \u2013 all after extra time or penalties.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s finals start on November 20 when the hosts face Ecuador in Group A, with Senegal beginning their campaign, in the same pool, against the Netherlands the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Koulibaly, who plays regularly in the Premier League, believes Africa\u2019s representatives need to think bigger than just reaching the knock-out phase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrican nations are lacking self-esteem and self-awareness that they can really win a World Cup,\u201d the 31-year-old told BBC Sport Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe consider that going past the group stage is a good thing, but we should set higher goals for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that the French team or the English team are happy with going through the group stages \u2013 they want to go further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should have the same mindset. That\u2019s what I am trying to bring to Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s time that an African country delivers and wins the World Cup, because we are a very talented continent. We have great players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalidou Koulibaly Senegal captain and Chelsea defender Kalidou Koulibaly says the Teranga Lions are aiming to become the first African nation to win the World Cup, with the tournament in Qatar exactly a month away. No side from the continent has ever made it past the quarter-finals, with Cameroon (1990), Senegal (2002) and most recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1099,2457,1281,3016,3558],"class_list":["post-1230512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-captain","tag-qatar","tag-senegal","tag-talks","tag-tough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230512","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=1230512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}