{"id":1254247,"date":"2022-11-19T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/andre-ayews-symbolic-hat-wearing-shows\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:16:46","slug":"andre-ayews-symbolic-hat-wearing-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/andre-ayews-symbolic-hat-wearing-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Andr\u00e9 Ayew\u2019s symbolic hat wearing shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"462\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-19-083415-696x462.png\"   alt=\"Andre Ayew\" title=\"Andre Ayew\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Ayew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Black Stars of Ghana announced their arrival in Qatar in grand style with the players and technical team wearing traditional smocks from the northern part of Ghana. <\/p>\n<p>It is worn on solemn special occasions and represents strength, courage, and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The smock is also worn by warriors. How the hat is positioned on the head communicates the occasion \u2013 whether for battle or a solemn event.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Andre Ayew displayed his symbolic hat to show the world his readiness for the battle ahead. This is seen by the uprightness of the hat on the captain\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>It symbolises that he is the leader of the team which is in accordance with the tradition of Dagombas and the Northern region at large.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew who led Ghana\u2019s Black Satellites to win the 2009 U-20 FIFA World Cup in Egypt is hoping to replicate that performance in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana showed their readiness for this year\u2019s world cup by beating Switzerland 2-0 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will open their tournament with group favourites Portugal next Thursday at the 974v stadium in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is in group H alongside Portugal, Uruguay, and South Korea.<\/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=\"jIqH6qDb1rc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GHS officers cautioned against taking gifts from suppliers of nutrition materials (18-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jIqH6qDb1rc?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>Andre Ayew The Black Stars of Ghana announced their arrival in Qatar in grand style with the players and technical team wearing traditional smocks from the northern part of Ghana. It is worn on solemn special occasions and represents strength, courage, and leadership. The smock is also worn by warriors. How the hat is positioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1254249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1104,2911,5836,962,6975,336],"class_list":["post-1254247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andre","tag-ayews","tag-hat","tag-shows","tag-symbolic","tag-wearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254247","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=1254247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}