{"id":735902,"date":"2022-01-05T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/ghana-engages-african-champions-algeria-in-pre-afcon-friendly-today\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T10:55:28","slug":"ghana-engages-african-champions-algeria-in-pre-afcon-friendly-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/ghana-engages-african-champions-algeria-in-pre-afcon-friendly-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana engages African champions Algeria in pre-AFCON friendly today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/51089614.295.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Black Stars at the training grounds\" title=\"A photo of Black Stars at the training grounds\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>A photo of Black Stars at the training grounds<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">The Black Stars of Ghana will face Algeria in a pre-AFCON friendly on Wednesday in Qatar as part of preparations for the tournament in Cameroon this month. <\/p>\n<p>The four-time African champions have been camping in Doha for the past three weeks and will be rounding off preparations with a test game against the African champions at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars has an almost full set following the arrivals of EPL stars Daniel Amartey, Jordan Ayew, and Thomas Partey on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Baba Rahman, Andy Yiadom, Kamaldeen Sulemana, and Mohammed Kudus are yet to join the team.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will come up against a very strong Algeria side that won the Arab Cup just a few weeks ago in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the two sides met was at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015, with Asamoah Gyan netting a final minute winner.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana has been placed in Group C alongside Morocco, Gabon, and the Comoros Island at AFCON 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria will be tested by Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, and Ivory Coast in Group E.<\/p>\n<p>The game between Ghana and Algeria will be played at 4:00 pm Ghana time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo of Black Stars at the training grounds The Black Stars of Ghana will face Algeria in a pre-AFCON friendly on Wednesday in Qatar as part of preparations for the tournament in Cameroon this month. The four-time African champions have been camping in Doha for the past three weeks and will be rounding off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735902","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=735902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}