{"id":741072,"date":"2022-01-08T22:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T22:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/atsu-tips-ghana-for-afcon-glory\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T22:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T22:16:40","slug":"atsu-tips-ghana-for-afcon-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/atsu-tips-ghana-for-afcon-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Atsu Tips Ghana For AFCON Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong> Christian Atsu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GHANA WINGER Christian Atsu remains optimistic of the Black Stars chances of winning the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon this year.<\/p>\n<p>The West African powerhouse have not won the competition since 1982 and after the 3-0 defeat to Algeria, fans have already given up on the team.<\/p>\n<p>However, Atsu, who was player of the tournament in 2015 when Ghana reached the final believes the blend of youth and experience puts the team in pole position to make history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very strong team; people don\u2019t realise it,\u201d Atsu told <em>3 Sports<\/em>. \u201cWe have young players but some people are complaining about their lack of experience. I am surprised people are still complaining about young players because for me, it doesn\u2019t matter whether you are young or old it is all about what you can do on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a young player, when you are given the opportunity, you must do your best else you won\u2019t get a second chance unless you are lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atsu continued, \u201cWe have a very good team, we have to support the team, and we have to expect a lot from them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard someone saying we shouldn\u2019t expect a lot from these players but what are they going to do in the tournament? They have to go and win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars open their Africa Cup of Nations campaign against Morocco on Monday, January 10.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Atsu GHANA WINGER Christian Atsu remains optimistic of the Black Stars chances of winning the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon this year. The West African powerhouse have not won the competition since 1982 and after the 3-0 defeat to Algeria, fans have already given up on the team. However, Atsu, who was player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,803,85,804,805],"class_list":["post-741072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-atsu","tag-ghana","tag-glory","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741072","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=741072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}