{"id":1247854,"date":"2022-11-10T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/10\/hearts-of-oak-players-are-well-fit-to-replace-the-black-stars-if-i-lead-them-slavko-matic\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:44:45","slug":"hearts-of-oak-players-are-well-fit-to-replace-the-black-stars-if-i-lead-them-slavko-matic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/10\/hearts-of-oak-players-are-well-fit-to-replace-the-black-stars-if-i-lead-them-slavko-matic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts of Oak players are well fit to replace the Black Stars if I lead them- Slavko Matic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(32, 33, 36);\">The history and records backs the current coach for Hearts of Oak. As the unprecedented have happened before. Hearts of Oak gave Nigeria a tough time and they will never forget about that drawn game. The men behind the team proved why they were conquering Africa and Ghana respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(32, 33, 36);\">Ghana &#8216;Hearts&#8217; Stars hold Nigeria in Accra on March 10, 2001. There was virtually zero confidence in the existing Black Stars team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Head coach of Hearts of Oak, Slavko Matic has urged the head coach of the Black Stars, Otto Addo to give local players the opportunity to display their talent.<\/p>\n<p>Three home based players have been named in the 55-man provisional FIFA World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak duo of Dennis Korsah, Daniel Afriyie Barnieh and Asante Kotoko goalkeeper, Danlad Ibrahim have been selected in the initial squad that will cut down to 26.<\/p>\n<p>Slavko Matic believes the two Hearts of Oak players will prove themselves if given the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe World Cup they will prove, they will be ready<\/em><\/strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThis is the decision of the head coach and I wish them a lot of happiness and good luck for all nation at the World Cup,\u201d Slavko Matic told StarTimes\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars have been paired in group H alongside Uruguay, Portugal and South Korea for the tournament that starts in the next two weeks in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/8b5f4c9416524527beeaacfab72a2b90\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/8abec0086dd14fbcb66991c2e95932bf\"\/>It is a through story from Slavko Matic, Hearts of Oak by all means will never disappoint Ghanaians because history backs them. <span style=\"color: rgb(32, 33, 36);\">An all Accra Hearts of Oak set-up, managed by the club&#8217;s head coach Cecil Jones Attquayefio, battled proudly to deny Nigeria in a goalless.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OnAndOffThePitch (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\">\nAfrica<br \/>\nDaniel Afriyie Barnieh<br \/>\nDennis Korsah<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nOtto Addo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history and records backs the current coach for Hearts of Oak. As the unprecedented have happened before. Hearts of Oak gave Nigeria a tough time and they will never forget about that drawn game. The men behind the team proved why they were conquering Africa and Ghana respectively. Ghana &#8216;Hearts&#8217; Stars hold Nigeria in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,1622,216,2046,27304,217,190,3911,27305,95],"class_list":["post-1247854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-black","tag-fit","tag-hearts","tag-lead","tag-matic","tag-oak","tag-players","tag-replace","tag-slavko","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247854","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=1247854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}