{"id":1257951,"date":"2022-11-25T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/youre-more-than-capable-make-us-proud\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T11:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:00:47","slug":"youre-more-than-capable-make-us-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/youre-more-than-capable-make-us-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re more than capable; make us proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Black Stars players of continuous support from Ghanaians despite the 3-2 defeat to Portugal during the opening game at the ongoing 2023 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo-Addo says Ghanaians are optimistic the Black Stars will win the remaining matches to qualify to the next stage of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that you are more than capable of going forward, coming out of this competition very well. Fortunately for you, I came here to express the solidarity of the people of Ghana for you and to encourage you. I know you are going to make all of us very proud\u201d, he told the team.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in a tweet, the President praised the Black Stars for an impressive performance against Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars were on the wrong side of a 3-2 loss on Thursday, but a strong second-half performance saw them almost snatch a draw late on.<\/p>\n<p>A penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo was cancelled out by Andre Ayew\u2019s strike.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Joao Felix and Rafael Leao appeared to have sealed the game for Portugal, but they had to endure a nerve-wracking end to the game after Osman Bukari headed in a cross for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet after the game, Nana Akufo-Addo praised the team for their performance, which he said proved that they could compete with any side at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cGutsy performance by the Black Stars\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><em>in today\u2019s match against Portugal. Very proud of the entire team,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the President said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cThey live to fight another day, &#038; have shown they have what it takes to mix it up against any team in the tournament. Looking forward to the next game against South Korea.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gutsy performance by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhanaBlackstars?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GhanaBlackstars<\/a> in today\u2019s match against Portugal. Very proud of the entire team. They live to fight another day, &#038; have shown they have what it takes to mix it up against any team in the tournament. Looking forward to the next game against South Korea. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FiDWm5fO4b\">pic.twitter.com\/FiDWm5fO4b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo\/status\/1595852907869618177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior to the game, Nana Akufo-Addo visited the team at their hotel and offered words of encouragement to the players.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will now face South Korea on Monday before taking on Uruguay in their final group game.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Black Stars players of continuous support from Ghanaians despite the 3-2 defeat to Portugal during the opening game at the ongoing 2023 World Cup in Qatar. Nana Akufo-Addo says Ghanaians are optimistic the Black Stars will win the remaining matches to qualify to the next stage of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257951","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=1257951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}