{"id":1269043,"date":"2022-12-22T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/ex-black-stars-team-doctor-criticizes-decision\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:58:29","slug":"ex-black-stars-team-doctor-criticizes-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/ex-black-stars-team-doctor-criticizes-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Black Stars team doctor criticizes decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"704\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Baba-696x704.png\"   alt=\"Doctor Baba\" title=\"Doctor Baba\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doctor Baba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr Adam Baba, Head of the Medical Committee of the Ghana Football Association, says\u00a0Wakaso Mubarak, Mohammed Kudus, and Kamaldeen Sulemana shouldn\u2019t have been included in the Ghana squad for the 2021 African Cup of Nations [AFCON].<\/p>\n<p>Despite the three players picking up injuries, the then-head coach for the side, Milovan Rajevac included the three players in his final 26-man\u00a0squad for the tournament which was staged in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Adams, speaking to Asempa FM, revealed that the\u00a0standard FIFA medical requirements were breached by the inclusion of the players in the squad.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndre Ayew made an arrangement for Mubarak Wakaso to train with the physios of his club which was not part of our plans,\u201d he said on<strong> Sports Nite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe informed the coach [Milovan Rajevac] about that he said that is fine because they have assured us that he will start playing in 10 days but the arrangement was done by Andre Ayew and we had no control over that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe the Black Stars medical team knew he [Mubarak Wakaso] was injured but we were told he joined the squad. If we were to go strictly according to the Fifa rule, Kamaldeen Sulemana, Mubarak Wakaso and Kudus Mohammed should not have been part of the team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Wakaso, despite his inclusion, was not able to feature in any of the the games as Ghana exited the tournament with no points.<\/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=\"h7vocxlDZVo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 9:55AM on Adom TV (22-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7vocxlDZVo?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>Doctor Baba Dr Adam Baba, Head of the Medical Committee of the Ghana Football Association, says\u00a0Wakaso Mubarak, Mohammed Kudus, and Kamaldeen Sulemana shouldn\u2019t have been included in the Ghana squad for the 2021 African Cup of Nations [AFCON]. Despite the three players picking up injuries, the then-head coach for the side, Milovan Rajevac included the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[736,2277,8302,5475,95,97],"class_list":["post-1269043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-criticizes","tag-decision","tag-doctor","tag-exblack","tag-stars","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269043","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=1269043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}