{"id":1255569,"date":"2022-11-22T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/22\/kuffour-convinced-about-black-stars-chances\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:23:57","slug":"kuffour-convinced-about-black-stars-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/22\/kuffour-convinced-about-black-stars-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuffour convinced about Black Stars chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"460\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1669112637_442_BS-1-696x460.png\"   alt=\"Black Stars\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Ghana international, Samuel Osei Kuffour, has called on the Black Stars to play at their best against Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will open their Group H campaign against the European side on Thursday, November 24, 2022, at Stadium 974 in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Kuffour, speaking ahead of the clash, said the Black Stars must be worried about the star-studded side.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the team must play with self-belief and confidence, adding that the Black Stars will be able to beat the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Black Stars need to control the game and play to our best,\u201d the former Bayern Munich defender told Asempa FM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should not think about the best players Portugal has. If we focus on one player, they will surprise us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey must play collectively as a unit. I know things have changed at the training and I am confident the team will triumph against Portugal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars, who are making their fourth appearance at the World Cup, will also come up against South Korea and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will be hoping to put up a decent performance in Qatar after exiting the group phase in 2014 in Brazil. The team also missed out on the last edition hosted in Russia in 2018.<\/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=\"LlOW2GgWhJI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lorry Terminal Construction - Adom TV News (21-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LlOW2GgWhJI?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>Black Stars Former Ghana international, Samuel Osei Kuffour, has called on the Black Stars to play at their best against Portugal. Ghana will open their Group H campaign against the European side on Thursday, November 24, 2022, at Stadium 974 in Doha. Kuffour, speaking ahead of the clash, said the Black Stars must be worried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,248,13956,6524,95],"class_list":["post-1255569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-chances","tag-convinced","tag-kuffour","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255569","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=1255569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}