{"id":740394,"date":"2022-01-08T11:07:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/ex-gfa-president-kwesi-nyantakyi-settles-on-ghana-and-four-other-countries-to-win-title\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T11:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:07:30","slug":"ex-gfa-president-kwesi-nyantakyi-settles-on-ghana-and-four-other-countries-to-win-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/ex-gfa-president-kwesi-nyantakyi-settles-on-ghana-and-four-other-countries-to-win-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi settles on Ghana and four other countries to win title"},"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\/55832548.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi is a former GFA President\" title=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi is a former GFA President\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kwesi Nyantakyi is a former GFA President<\/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\">Former Ghana Football Association [GFA] President, Kwesi Nyantakyi, has tipped either Mali, Senegal, Morocco or reigning champions Algeria to win the upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations aside from Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The former CAF 1st vice president in an interview said\u00a0any of these four countries can go all the way to win the trophy in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria won the last edition and are many people\u2019s favourite to defend the crown, while Senegal hope to better 2019\u2019s record of finishing second. Morocco, who are in Ghana\u2019s group, have a talented squad, the same as Mali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMali has invested massively in the development of players at the grassroots level. GMG Academy for instance has been doing great work at this,&#8221; Mr Nyantakyi told Accra based Onua TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has positioned Mali as one of the favourites for the tournament. Senegal, Morocco, and Algeria are the countries who can excel at the tournament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 33rd edition of the AFCON\u00a0 tournament kicks off on Sunday, January 9 with the finals set for February 6, 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwesi Nyantakyi is a former GFA President Former Ghana Football Association [GFA] President, Kwesi Nyantakyi, has tipped either Mali, Senegal, Morocco or reigning champions Algeria to win the upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations aside from Ghana. The former CAF 1st vice president in an interview said\u00a0any of these four countries can go all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740394","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\/740394","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=740394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}