{"id":1252738,"date":"2022-11-17T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/i-have-never-influenced-player-call-ups-to-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:00:33","slug":"i-have-never-influenced-player-call-ups-to-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/i-have-never-influenced-player-call-ups-to-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"I have never influenced player call-ups to 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=\"520\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-17-092312-696x520.png\"   alt=\"Osei Kweku Palmer\" title=\"Osei Kweku Palmer\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osei Kweku Palmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Black Stars management committee member, Wilfred Osei Kweku Palmer, has insisted that he has never influenced player call-up to the national team.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of player influence on the national team has been a problem for the past and present leadership of the Ghana Football Association.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, former Black Stars coach, CK Akonnor, speaking in an interview, revealed that he had a tough time with the final decision on inviting players to the national team.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, speaking in an interview, the Tema Youth owner insisted that he has never influenced call-ups to the national team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring days at the Ghana Football Association [GFA], no one can influence a player call-up,\u201d he said on <strong>Asempa FM<\/strong> on the <strong>Ultimate Sports Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Avram Grant was in charge of the Black Stars, we only had a problem with him when he called an injured player for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we sat him done, he explained and rationalized his decision, and George Afriyie among other members of the Executive Committee insisted the coach must be allowed to do his job,\u201d he added.<\/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=\"HxYwtZTtu88\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Soaring Food Prices: Minority tears into Agric Ministry\u2019s PFJ market as unsustainable (16-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HxYwtZTtu88?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>Osei Kweku Palmer Former Black Stars management committee member, Wilfred Osei Kweku Palmer, has insisted that he has never influenced player call-up to the national team. The issue of player influence on the national team has been a problem for the past and present leadership of the Ghana Football Association. Recently, former Black Stars coach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1252740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,27408,12580,731,95],"class_list":["post-1252738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-callups","tag-influenced","tag-player","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252738","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=1252738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}