{"id":1254182,"date":"2022-11-19T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/breaking-former-kotoko-coach-assesses-black-stars-world-cup-chances\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T17:20:26","slug":"breaking-former-kotoko-coach-assesses-black-stars-world-cup-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/breaking-former-kotoko-coach-assesses-black-stars-world-cup-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Former Kotoko Coach Assesses Black Stars World Cup Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former head coach of Asante Kotoko, Maxwell Konadu has expressed confidence that the Black Stars will be able to beat any opponent at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The four time African champions have been paired in group H that constitute two old foes, Portugal, Uruguay and South for the month long tournament in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/e2a10525f47c425a8757cab070596b32\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ghana is making a fourth appearance at the World Cup having first entered in the 2006 edition in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very hopeful that the Blackstars can surprise any team  Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must also be wary that our team is a new team as compared to Portugal who has been together for a longer period.\u201d Maxwell Konadu said.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars best World Cup performance was a quarter final place finish in the 2010 tournament in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>A group stage exit at the 2014 edition in Brazil marked a downward turn for the West African nation which failed to book a slot in the 2018 mundial.<\/p>\n<p>The team however returned with verve in the 2022 qualifiers &#8211; beating arch rivals, Nigeria via the away goal rule to return the global football showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (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\">\nGhana<br \/>\nMaxwell Konadu<br \/>\nPortugal<br \/>\nQatar<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former head coach of Asante Kotoko, Maxwell Konadu has expressed confidence that the Black Stars will be able to beat any opponent at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The four time African champions have been paired in group H that constitute two old foes, Portugal, Uruguay and South for the month long tournament in Qatar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1254183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19007,94,316,248,1763,262,16,95,784],"class_list":["post-1254182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-assesses","tag-black","tag-breaking","tag-chances","tag-coach","tag-cup","tag-kotoko","tag-stars","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254182","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=1254182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}