Ghana to play Morocco in AFCON opener<\/b><\/p>\n Algeria comfortably beat Ghana in a pre-AFCON friendly<\/p>\n CK Akonnor unsure Ghana can win the AFCON<\/p>\n Former Black Stars head coach, Charles Kwambla Akonnor, is hopeful that the Black Stars will come good in their opening African Cup of Nations (AFCON) game against Morocco after picking up a defeat in a friendly against Algeria. <\/p>\n The Black Stars were thumped 3-0 in a friendly at the Education City Stadium in Qatar on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. <\/p>\n Adam Ounas, Islam Slimani, and Johnathan Mensah\u2019s own goal were on the scoresheet as the reigning African champions dusted Ghana. <\/p>\n C.K. Akonnor who was sacked by the GFA in October 2021 said he will be rooting for Ghana but could not tell if the team will win the trophy. <\/p>\n \u201cI will be supporting Ghana. None of us can tell where the team will reach.\u201d<\/p>\n The former Asante Kotoko manager also talked about the importance of the Algeria match despite the loss. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was a necessary friendly match ahead of the Morocco game. By now the technical team and management know what to do. I am hopeful by the time we play against Morocco things will get better,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Ghana will play the Atlas Lions on January 10, 2022, in an opening Group C encounter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Black Stars coach, Charles Akonnor Ghana to play Morocco in AFCON opener Algeria comfortably beat Ghana in a pre-AFCON friendly CK Akonnor unsure Ghana can win the AFCON Former Black Stars head coach, Charles Kwambla Akonnor, is hopeful that the Black Stars will come good in their opening African Cup of Nations (AFCON) game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739462","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\/739462","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=739462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Former](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/94012454.295.jpg\" "\\"Former")
Former Black Stars coach, Charles Akonnor<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n