{"id":1250126,"date":"2022-11-14T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T10:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/14\/jojo-wollacott-ruled-out-of-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T10:26:58","slug":"jojo-wollacott-ruled-out-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/14\/jojo-wollacott-ruled-out-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Jojo Wollacott ruled out of World Cup \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jojo Wollacott has a broken finger and will miss the 2022 World Cup, which starts in eight days.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The goalie was hurt while warming up for Charlton Athletic\u2019s League One match against Burton Albion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe caught the end of his finger in the warm-up. He\u2019ll get scanned as soon as we get back down to London. We\u2019re hoping and praying that it is nothing because he\u2019s due to fly out to the World Cup tomorrow,\u201d Charlton Athletic manager Ben Garner told the club\u2019s media channel after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Scans indicated a significant injury, putting Wollacott out of the competition a day before the final 26 were announced.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Wollacott has been the Black Stars\u2019 starting goalkeeper since September 21. He was the Black Stars\u2019 goalkeeper for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Otto Addo doesn\u2019t even know his first 11; he should be replaced with Chris Hughton else danger will happen at Qatar \u2013 Super Obondede<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>He was criticized for several of the goals he allowed in Cameroon, but he redeemed himself in March when Ghana beat Nigeria to qualify for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol-born Wollacott has made 11 appearances for Ghana. He\u2019s allowed 11 goals and had 4 shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Monday is the start of the Black Stars\u2019 Abu Dhabi camp. On November 17, they\u2019ll face Switzerland in their last pre-tournament friendly before heading to Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana faces Portugal on November 24 at Doha\u2019s Stadium 974.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u25fe\ufe0fLawrence Ati Zigi<br \/>\u25fe\ufe0fIbrahim Danlad<\/p>\n<p>Who should replace Joseph Wollacott in the Black Stars squad for the 2022 World Cup?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3Sports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#3Sports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022onMG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Qatar2022onMG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MDGTLy5XKB\">pic.twitter.com\/MDGTLy5XKB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #3Sports (@3SportsGh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3SportsGh\/status\/1591812603944534018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Jojo Wollacott has a broken finger and will miss the 2022 World Cup, which starts in eight days. The goalie was hurt while warming up for Charlton Athletic\u2019s League One match against Burton Albion. \u201cHe caught the end of his finger in the warm-up. He\u2019ll get scanned as soon as we get back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[262,7073,2167,7074,784],"class_list":["post-1250126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cup","tag-jojo","tag-ruled","tag-wollacott","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250126","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=1250126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}