{"id":739453,"date":"2022-01-07T16:56:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/kelvin-yeboah-was-overlooked-by-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:56:43","slug":"kelvin-yeboah-was-overlooked-by-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/kelvin-yeboah-was-overlooked-by-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Yeboah was overlooked by Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday,  7 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>footballghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/38640674.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kelvin Yeboah played for Italy U-21\" title=\"Kelvin Yeboah played for Italy U-21\" width=\"295\" height=\"172\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kelvin Yeboah played for Italy U-21<\/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\">Ghana legend, Anthony Yeboah has revealed a failed attempt to get his nephew Kelvin Yeboah play for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>His comment comes following the latter&#8217;s decision to play for Italy U-21 team over the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>The Sturm Graz forward had received an invite to play for the national team, the Black Stars prior to the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Ethiopia and South Africa last year.<\/p>\n<p>Yeboah who had been in top form at club level was also invited by the Italy U-21 team for the European U-21 Championship qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Ghanaian descent snubbed the invite to play for the Black Stars indicating it was an honor for him to represent the European country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Onua TV, the legendary striker disclosed he recommended his nephew for the junior national teams but was overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time Kelvin wasn\u2019t at his peak, I recommended him for the juvenile national team but no one picked him. I talk to him, definitely I would prefer him playing for Ghana instead of Italy at the senior level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Friday, 7 January 2022 Source: footballghana.com 2022-01-07 Kelvin Yeboah played for Italy U-21 Ghana legend, Anthony Yeboah has revealed a failed attempt to get his nephew Kelvin Yeboah play for Ghana. His comment comes following the latter&#8217;s decision to play for Italy U-21 team over the Black Stars. The Sturm Graz forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739453","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\/739453","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=739453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}