{"id":740432,"date":"2022-01-08T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/2021-africa-cup-of-nations-we-will-do-much-better\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:28:14","slug":"2021-africa-cup-of-nations-we-will-do-much-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/2021-africa-cup-of-nations-we-will-do-much-better\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Africa Cup of Nations: We will do much better"},"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\/26629044.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana's coach, Milovan Rajevac\" title=\"Ghana's coach, Milovan Rajevac\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana&#8217;s coach, Milovan Rajevac<\/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 coach, Milovan Rajevac, has said he is convinced of much better performance from his team ahead of the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars in a pre-AFCON friendly lost 3-0 in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat left many Ghanaians questioning the quality of the team ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Serbian trainer remains optimistic ahead of the competition which begins on Sunday, January 9, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the AFCON, we will have the ability to play against some of the big teams like Morocco and Gabon,&#8221; the Serbian trainer as quoted by CAFonline.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the opportunity to get to know the teams even better. But time is on our side for more matches, and we will do much better at the AFCON,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana has been drawn in Group C alongside Morocco, Gabon and the Comoros Island.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time African champions will begin their AFCON campaign with a game against Morocco on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Milovan Rajevac, who is on a one-year renewable contract has been tasked by the Ghana Football Association [GFA] to steer the team to end the country&#8217;s 40 years AFCON trophy drought.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old will pocket $300,000 should he win the trophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s coach, Milovan Rajevac Ghana coach, Milovan Rajevac, has said he is convinced of much better performance from his team ahead of the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon. The Black Stars in a pre-AFCON friendly lost 3-0 in Doha. The defeat left many Ghanaians questioning the quality of the team ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740432","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\/740432","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=740432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}