{"id":740530,"date":"2022-01-08T12:55:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T12:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/a-wonderful-adventure-begins-ghana-defender-alexander-djiku-ready-for-afcon\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T12:55:28","slug":"a-wonderful-adventure-begins-ghana-defender-alexander-djiku-ready-for-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/a-wonderful-adventure-begins-ghana-defender-alexander-djiku-ready-for-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A wonderful adventure begins&#8217; &#8211; Ghana defender Alexander Djiku ready for AFCON"},"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\/62759658.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana Black Stars defender, Alexander Djiku\" title=\"Ghana Black Stars defender, Alexander Djiku\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana Black Stars defender, Alexander Djiku<\/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\">Defender Alexander Djiku has charged his Black Stars teammates to be ready for AFCON as the tournament begins on Sunday, January 9, in Cameroon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars are expected in Yaound\u00e9 on Saturday ahead of their opening game against Morocco on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Djiku, who was born in France opted to represent Ghana and this will be his first international tournament with the West African powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A wonderful adventure begins. Come on Black Stars,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">A wonderful adventure begins????<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCome on ???????????????????? ???????????????????? ????????<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AD23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AD23<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackStars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackStars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ghana?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ghana<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CAN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jFqSOtFtaQ\">pic.twitter.com\/jFqSOtFtaQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexander Djiku (@alex_djiku) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex_djiku\/status\/1479492765662728197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Djiku has been one of the stalwarts in the Black Stars team since making his debut, and will play a key role at the Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana have been drawn in Group C alongside Morocco, Gabon and the Comoros Island.<\/p>\n<p>The four times African Champions will be hoping to end a 40-year trophy drought in Cameroon this year, after many disappointments in recent times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Black Stars defender, Alexander Djiku Defender Alexander Djiku has charged his Black Stars teammates to be ready for AFCON as the tournament begins on Sunday, January 9, in Cameroon.\u00a0 The Black Stars are expected in Yaound\u00e9 on Saturday ahead of their opening game against Morocco on Monday. Djiku, who was born in France opted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[714,93,715,716,397,717,85,718,719],"class_list":["post-740530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adventure","tag-afcon","tag-alexander","tag-begins","tag-defender","tag-djiku","tag-ghana","tag-ready","tag-wonderful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740530","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=740530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}