{"id":1253424,"date":"2022-11-18T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/smile-at-the-storm-black-stars-amb-ray-quarcoo\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:38:04","slug":"smile-at-the-storm-black-stars-amb-ray-quarcoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/smile-at-the-storm-black-stars-amb-ray-quarcoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile At The Storm, Black Stars- Amb. Ray Quarcoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ambassador Ray Quarcoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goodwill Ambassador, Ray Quarcoo, has urged the senior men\u2019s national football team, the Black Stars, to eschew complacency, in order to confront and surmount the challenge of contest at the imminent Qatar 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is football,\u201d noted the former vice chairman of the Black Stars welfare committee, cautioning that, \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t take it for granted, that they\u2019re there, they\u2019ve qualified, so, success would be automatic at the grandest stage of football competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players and coaches should intensify their efforts, so that they would win their matches, at the World Cup, hosted in winter, and by an Arab country, for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Ghana is ranked last among all 32 qualified countries vying for the coveted trophy, the Goodwill Ambassador advised the Black Stars to smile at the storm, assuring them, \u201cWe are behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is housed in Group H, including a 2014 World Cup foe, Portugal, featuring five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner, Cristiano Ronaldo, Asian giants, South Korea, and nemesis Uruguay, who stopped Ghana from getting into the rarified air of a semi-final berth for Africa, at the 2010 World Cup held on African soil, in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Ray Quarcoo \u00a0 Goodwill Ambassador, Ray Quarcoo, has urged the senior men\u2019s national football team, the Black Stars, to eschew complacency, in order to confront and surmount the challenge of contest at the imminent Qatar 2022 World Cup. \u201cFootball is football,\u201d noted the former vice chairman of the Black Stars welfare committee, cautioning that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23156,94,24745,15632,13498,95,3655],"class_list":["post-1253424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-amb","tag-black","tag-quarcoo","tag-ray","tag-smile","tag-stars","tag-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253424","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=1253424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}