{"id":737912,"date":"2022-01-06T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/ghanas-opponent-gabon-arrives-in-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:20:21","slug":"ghanas-opponent-gabon-arrives-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/ghanas-opponent-gabon-arrives-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s opponent Gabon arrives in Cameroon"},"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\/56882537.295.jpg\" alt=\"Gabon has arrived in Cameroon for AFCON 2021\" title=\"Gabon has arrived in Cameroon for AFCON 2021\" width=\"295\" height=\"206\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Gabon has arrived in Cameroon for AFCON 2021<\/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\"><b>AFCON 2021 to start on January 9, 2022 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gabon to open campaign against Comoros  <\/p>\n<p>Gabon lost all two pre-AFCON friendly games<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Group C opponent in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, Gabon have arrived in Cameroon on Wednesday, January 6, 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Gabon arrived in Cameroon after wrapping up their preparations for the tournament with two international friendly games against the Stallions of Burkina Faso and the Almoravids Mauritania.  <\/p>\n<p>The Panthers (Gabon) lost 3-0 to Burkina Faso in their first international friendly game ahead of this tournament before drawing goalless with Mauritania on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Gabon have never won the AFCON in their history as their best has been a quarterfinals appearance in 2013 when they co-hosted with Equatorial Guinea. <\/p>\n<p>Gabon have been placed in Group C and would come up against favourites Morocco, Ghana, and newcomers Comoros.     <br \/>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Aubameyang and his Gabon squad have arrived in Cameroon this morning. They are the team I am most worried about in our group based on when we play them. They will determine our fate. Their first game is against Comoros. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCON?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFCON<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GWxFSX7wbb\">pic.twitter.com\/GWxFSX7wbb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Godfred Akoto Boafo (@eastsportsman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eastsportsman\/status\/1479012976011137026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabon has arrived in Cameroon for AFCON 2021 AFCON 2021 to start on January 9, 2022 Gabon to open campaign against Comoros Gabon lost all two pre-AFCON friendly games Ghana\u2019s Group C opponent in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, Gabon have arrived in Cameroon on Wednesday, January 6, 2022. Gabon arrived in Cameroon after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737912","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\/737912","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=737912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}