{"id":1246826,"date":"2022-11-08T18:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/08\/someone-collapsed-my-dream-to-lead-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T18:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:41:56","slug":"someone-collapsed-my-dream-to-lead-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/08\/someone-collapsed-my-dream-to-lead-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone collapsed my dream to lead Black Stars"},"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\/11\/ESNX9UiW4AIN4ls-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"CK Akonnor\" title=\"CK Akonnor\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">C.K. Akonnor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Ghana coach, Charles Akonnor, says his dream of leading the Black Stars to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] was shuttered by someone.<\/p>\n<p>Akonnor, who replaced Kwesi Appiah on a two-year deal in January 2020, was sacked after Ghana\u2019s shaky start to the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The former Kotoko gaffer was replaced by Milovan Rajevac ahead of the tournament in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Joy Sports, Akonnor revealed the disappointment of not heading the team at the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Being the head coach at the 2021 AFCON] was a dream but one way or the other, somebody shut it down, who that person is, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say so [I would have done better than what Milovan Rajevac did], but I had a plan and if that plan had worked, maybe we would have done better than we did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least, the FA should have allowed me to go to the AFCON and come back because my contract was even running out. I was hurt but I am better now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Serbian gaffer Milovan Rajevac led the Stars to the tourney and exited in the group stages.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s focus is on the 2022 Fifa World Cup where they hope to produce success after the terrible display at the Afcon 2021.<\/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=\"gPtn5Ff8tNk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Otto Addo, your final 26-man squad should be selected based on merit - Fire for fire  (8-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gPtn5Ff8tNk?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>C.K. Akonnor Former Ghana coach, Charles Akonnor, says his dream of leading the Black Stars to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] was shuttered by someone. Akonnor, who replaced Kwesi Appiah on a two-year deal in January 2020, was sacked after Ghana\u2019s shaky start to the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. The former Kotoko gaffer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1246828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,2668,877,2046,95],"class_list":["post-1246826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-collapsed","tag-dream","tag-lead","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246826","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=1246826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}