{"id":1245982,"date":"2022-11-07T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/qatar-2022-ghana-is-capable-of-reaching-semi-finals-if\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:46:21","slug":"qatar-2022-ghana-is-capable-of-reaching-semi-finals-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/qatar-2022-ghana-is-capable-of-reaching-semi-finals-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar 2022: Ghana is capable of reaching semi-finals if&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d951d72618fe701125be7addfa87a1b9_L-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Black Stars\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A former Spokesperson of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Ibrahim Sannie Daara, is confident that the Black Stars has equal chance of reaching the semi finals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>In less than 13 days, the West African powerhouse will return to the Mundial after missing out on the last edition hosted in Russia, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>After three appearances at the world cup tournament, their best performance came during South Africa, 2010 after exiting in the quarter final stage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, Sannie believes the team has the quality to make the semi-finals only if they escape the likes of Brazil in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very much convinced about our chances,\u201d he said on <strong>Asempa FM<\/strong> Utlimate Sports Show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the team currently, Otto Addo has been able to create a competition among the players and every position now has three players competing for the playing spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that Brazil does not come on the way and if that happens, the Black Stars can play in the semi-final. I am convinced about that because we have the quality,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will take on Switzerland in a friendly before opening their world cup campaign against Portugal on November 24.<\/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=\"XZw4I07OjMw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 1:55PM on Adom TV (7-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZw4I07OjMw?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 A former Spokesperson of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Ibrahim Sannie Daara, is confident that the Black Stars has equal chance of reaching the semi finals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. In less than 13 days, the West African powerhouse will return to the Mundial after missing out on the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6430,85,19289,2457,8618,3728],"class_list":["post-1245982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-capable","tag-ghana","tag-if","tag-qatar","tag-reaching","tag-semifinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245982","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=1245982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}