{"id":1261324,"date":"2022-12-03T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/03\/2022-world-cup-i-am-disappointed\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:10:02","slug":"2022-world-cup-i-am-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/03\/2022-world-cup-i-am-disappointed\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 World Cup: I am disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"471\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1670065316_785_Screenshot-2022-12-02-175449-696x471.png\"   alt=\"Andre Ayew fails to convert spotkick\" title=\"Andre Ayew fails to convert spotkick\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Ayew fails to convert spotkick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Black Stars captain, Andre Ayew, has expressed his disappointment after missing a penalty in the final\u00a0group game at the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana needed a draw to progress to the next round of the tournament but suffered a 2-0 defeat against Uruguay on Friday at the Al Janoub Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Ayew was presented with an opportunity to put the Black Stars ahead but failed to convert a spot-kick.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, the Al Sadd forward stated he was disappointed with the elimination but added that he is very optimistic for the future as Ghana looks to the participating in the next AFCON tournament slated for Cote D\u2019Ivoire in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the opportunity to get to the next stage\u2026 I missed the penalty..it\u2019s difficult to take..we did not get it right. I am very optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sad but we will try and make it better,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana exited the tournament with just three points to finish at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Otto Addo has left his role as the head coach of the Black Stars following the elimination.<\/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=\"rhf8k1dBnOo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celebrating Farmers - Adom TV News (2-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhf8k1dBnOo?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 fails to convert spotkick Black Stars captain, Andre Ayew, has expressed his disappointment after missing a penalty in the final\u00a0group game at the 2022 World Cup. Ghana needed a draw to progress to the next round of the tournament but suffered a 2-0 defeat against Uruguay on Friday at the Al Janoub Stadium. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,1140,784],"class_list":["post-1261324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-disappointed","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261324","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=1261324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}