{"id":1259272,"date":"2022-11-28T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/28\/kudos-akufo-addo-congratulates-black-stars-for-defeating-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:50:13","slug":"kudos-akufo-addo-congratulates-black-stars-for-defeating-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/28\/kudos-akufo-addo-congratulates-black-stars-for-defeating-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kudos&#8217; \u2013 Akufo-Addo congratulates Black Stars for defeating South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has congratulated the Black Stars for their victory over South Korea in Ghana\u2019s second match of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>A brace by Mohammed Kudos helped the Black Stars beat South Korea 3 \u2013 2 in their second group game on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Salisu scored the other goal in the thriller at the Education City stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The President described the victory as hard-fought but deserving.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnakufoaddo%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02wCfk7ZxQgLrjzFwGGCGg9jxa4vw9UrQSTnPsRiYVnWozvsUPhjrNf6HPNx4yKfogl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKudos to the Black Stars. Hard fought, but thoroughly well-deserved victory against South Korea. Proud of the entire team and the unalloyed support given to them by all Ghanaians. Now to the final game against Uruguay,\u201d Nana Akufo-Addo wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a brief second-half rally from the South Koreans, Otto Addo\u2019s side picked up all three points to keep them in the race for a Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Following the opening-day loss to Portugal, the Black Stars needed to avoid defeat against the Koreans to stave off early elimination from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This was clearly on the minds of the players, as a nervy start allowed the South Koreans to dominate the early stages of the game.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has congratulated the Black Stars for their victory over South Korea in Ghana\u2019s second match of the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar. A brace by Mohammed Kudos helped the Black Stars beat South Korea 3 \u2013 2 in their second group game on Monday. Mohammed Salisu scored the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259272","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\/1259272","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=1259272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}