{"id":1262192,"date":"2022-12-06T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/2022-world-cup-black-star-players-were-distracted\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:08:41","slug":"2022-world-cup-black-star-players-were-distracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/2022-world-cup-black-star-players-were-distracted\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 World Cup: Black Star players were distracted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image_2022-12-06_121520757-696x522.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"image_2022-12-06_121520757\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Veteran Sports Journalist, Osei Owusu Bempah, has opined the Black Stars camp in Qatar being flooded with a lot of people who had \u201cno business being there\u201d may have been a source of distraction for the players during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Black Stars were crashed out of the ongoing tournament in the Arab country of Qatar when the Stars failed to beat Uruguay last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The team gathered three points out of a possible nine after winning against South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, video footage that emerged on the internet showed the team\u2019s camp in Qatar was visibly accessible to some personalities, including politicians, journalists and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>These scenes could have occasioned distraction in camp, says Owusu Bempah.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on LUV FM\u2019s sports talk show, Kick Off, the ace football analyst and administrator, condemned the unbridled access to Ghana\u2019s camp during the global showpiece in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that surprised me was the seeming chaotic nature of the Black Stars camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there were so many people there in camp who necessarily had no business being there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly, the team qualifies for a World Cup and almost every Member of Parliament is in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so annoying, some of the characters that I saw in the Black Stars camp, I was shocked to the extent that when games were going on, there were people who were on benches, talking with players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was surprised to see some of these people over there, obviously, it will affect players,\u201d he said.<\/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=\"t8F9wr8h0W0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam News on Adom TV (06-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t8F9wr8h0W0?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>Veteran Sports Journalist, Osei Owusu Bempah, has opined the Black Stars camp in Qatar being flooded with a lot of people who had \u201cno business being there\u201d may have been a source of distraction for the players during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. 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