{"id":1266006,"date":"2022-12-16T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T12:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/gfa-face-tough-decision-on-ghana-head-coach-appointment\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T12:53:21","slug":"gfa-face-tough-decision-on-ghana-head-coach-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/gfa-face-tough-decision-on-ghana-head-coach-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"GFA Face Tough Decision on Ghana Head Coach Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a47c0e9240de4856b38db798ad33ad1e\" alt=\"Ghana Football Association - Wikipedia\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">After a poor run in the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament that saw the early exit of the Black Stars in the group stages of the World Cup tournament, Coach Otto Addo announced his resignation as head coach of the Black Stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">This has left the Black Stars without a coach and a big task for the Ghana Football Association to make in the few weeks ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8dbeb32f4c164909905388d395dc0db9\" alt=\"Black Stars: George Boateng quits Aston Villa job to focus on national team  \u2013 Citi Sports Online\"\/><\/span><strong style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"><em>George Boateng<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">According to sources around the Ghana Football Association, two names have been present in discussions with George Boateng and Chris Hughton favourites to land the role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/870b95ce598c4876b05fd92c04632341\" alt=\"Chris Hughton a quiet but vital part of Ghana's shot at World Cup success\"\/><strong><em>Chris Hughton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">George Boateng served as an assistant coach under Coach Otto Addo and even resigned from his role as an assistant coach at Aston Villa to focus on his Black Stars job. Chris Hughton was also a technical advisor for the Black Stars at the World cup and is said to be interested in having the mandate to coach the Black stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Any decision by the Ghana Football Association will be communicated once it is shared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Kritiq (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBlack<br \/>\nChris Hughto<br \/>\nGFA<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nOtto Addo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a poor run in the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament that saw the early exit of the Black Stars in the group stages of the World Cup tournament, Coach Otto Addo announced his resignation as head coach of the Black Stars. This has left the Black Stars without a coach and a big task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2394,1763,2277,1497,1615,85,3558],"class_list":["post-1266006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-appointment","tag-coach","tag-decision","tag-face","tag-gfa","tag-ghana","tag-tough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266006","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=1266006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}