{"id":740798,"date":"2022-01-08T17:06:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/nyantakyi-names-countries-favourite-to-win-tourney\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:06:17","slug":"nyantakyi-names-countries-favourite-to-win-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/nyantakyi-names-countries-favourite-to-win-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyantakyi names countries favourite to win tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/a365bafcef7883dd6a62a381e1a0430f5250e9d5-696x392.jpeg\"   alt=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi\" title=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwesi Nyantakyi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kwesi Nyantakyi has named either Mali, Senegal, Morocco or reigning champions Algeria to win the upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] aside from Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The 33rd edition of the AFCON is set to kick off on Sunday, January 9\u00a0in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Ghana Football Association [GFA] president in an interview said any 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><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/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,\u201d Mr Nyantakyi, a former CAF 1st vice president\u00a0told Accra based\u00a0<strong><em>Onua TV.<\/em><\/strong><\/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>Ghana will, however, be aiming to end its 40 years AFCON trophy drought under Milovan Rajevac.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Jy8ybQ0olZw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Stars Coach Milo, Ghana&#039;s Target of Winning The AFCON Hasn&#039;t Changed- Adom TV (7-01-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jy8ybQ0olZw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwesi Nyantakyi Kwesi Nyantakyi has named either Mali, Senegal, Morocco or reigning champions Algeria to win the upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] aside from Ghana. The 33rd edition of the AFCON is set to kick off on Sunday, January 9\u00a0in Cameroon. However, the former Ghana Football Association [GFA] president in an interview said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[462,771,772,524,773,309],"class_list":["post-740798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-countries","tag-favourite","tag-names","tag-nyantakyi","tag-tourney","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740798","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=740798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}