{"id":1231424,"date":"2022-10-22T09:07:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T09:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/22\/black-meteors-arrive-safely-in-maputo-ahead-of-u-23-african-qualifier-against-mozambique-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T09:07:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T09:07:12","slug":"black-meteors-arrive-safely-in-maputo-ahead-of-u-23-african-qualifier-against-mozambique-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/22\/black-meteors-arrive-safely-in-maputo-ahead-of-u-23-african-qualifier-against-mozambique-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Meteors arrive safely in Maputo ahead of U-23 African qualifier against Mozambique tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s U-23 national team, the Black Meteors, have arrived safely in Maputo ahead of tomorrow&#8217;s meeting with Mozambique in an African U-23 qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Meteors, will face their Mozambican counterparts in a first leg qualifier to the finals in Morocco next year.<\/p>\n<p>The game be played at the Estadio Nacional do Zimpeto, Gazon in the Mozambican capital on Sunday, with Ghana hopeful of a good result to take into the return encounter in Kumasi next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Meteors, arrived in Mozambique early Friday, and took to the training pitch later in the day to continue with their preparations for the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The team, will train at the match venue on Saturday afternoon as required by the competition rules to get a feel of the home conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d2a2a5a5c93a4ec096aae2e7a4d3498a\"\/>Coach Ibrahim Tanko, took a 22-man squad for the trip, and, the former Ghana international is expected to name a strong lineup for tomorrow&#8217;s game as they target a win.<\/p>\n<p>The return encounter will be played at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi next week Sunday as Ghana looks to book a place to the next round of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this two-legged affair, will progress to take on the victor of the DR Congo and Algeria tie for a place at the African U-23 championships in Morocco next year.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: KONTOMIRE (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\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s U-23 national team, the Black Meteors, have arrived safely in Maputo ahead of tomorrow&#8217;s meeting with Mozambique in an African U-23 qualifier. The Black Meteors, will face their Mozambican counterparts in a first leg qualifier to the finals in Morocco next year. The game be played at the Estadio Nacional do Zimpeto, Gazon in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[461,260,933,94,27827,19325,27002,9585,6852,1074,24427],"class_list":["post-1231424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-african","tag-ahead","tag-arrive","tag-black","tag-maputo","tag-meteors","tag-mozambique","tag-qualifier","tag-tomorrow","tag-u23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231424","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=1231424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}