{"id":1239835,"date":"2022-10-31T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/uruguay-star-valverde-opens-up-on-facing-ghana-others-in-group-h\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T17:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:22:33","slug":"uruguay-star-valverde-opens-up-on-facing-ghana-others-in-group-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/uruguay-star-valverde-opens-up-on-facing-ghana-others-in-group-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay star Valverde opens up on facing Ghana, others in Group H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_2022-10-31_164537362-696x385.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Federico Valverde\/ Getty Images\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federico Valverde\/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Real Madrid and Uruguay midfielder, Federico Valverde has highlighted the importance of playing Ghana, Portugal and South Korea at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time World Cup winners have been housed in Group H against Ghana, Portugal and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay will open their account against South Korea on November 24 before taking on Portugal and Ghana on November 28 and December 2 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to 24-year-old, being paired in a difficult group will prevent his side from underestimating opponents during the mundial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more difficult the group the better. We need to face strong teams, we need something like this,\u201d Valverde told DirecTV Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we get something easy, we underestimate it. As Uruguayans, we like challenges and we have the weapons to be protagonists if we believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Valverde, who started his senior career at Uruguayan club Penarol, has emerged as a key player for European champions Real Madrid this season with seven goals and two assists.<\/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=\"-pfnsaEDc8o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GNAT rejects government&#039;s appointee, Dr. Eric Nkansah - Premtobre Kasee (31-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-pfnsaEDc8o?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>Federico Valverde\/ Getty Images Real Madrid and Uruguay midfielder, Federico Valverde has highlighted the importance of playing Ghana, Portugal and South Korea at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The two-time World Cup winners have been housed in Group H against Ghana, Portugal and Uruguay. Uruguay will open their account against South Korea on November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[11844,85,516,1100,209,6994,27518],"class_list":["post-1239835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-facing","tag-ghana","tag-group","tag-opens","tag-star","tag-uruguay","tag-valverde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239835","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=1239835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}