{"id":743102,"date":"2022-01-10T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/black-stars-will-be-a-tough-customer-morocco-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:19:21","slug":"black-stars-will-be-a-tough-customer-morocco-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/black-stars-will-be-a-tough-customer-morocco-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars will be a tough customer \u2013 Morocco head coach"},"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\/75381889.295.jpg\" alt=\"Vahid Halilhodzic is the head coach of the Atlas Lions of Morocco\" title=\"Vahid Halilhodzic is the head coach of the Atlas Lions of Morocco\" width=\"295\" height=\"211\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Vahid Halilhodzic is the head coach of the Atlas Lions of Morocco<\/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\">Head coach of the Atlas Lions of Morocco, Vahid Halilhodzic is expecting a tough test against the Black Stars in the Group C opener in the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries (Morocco &amp; Ghana) that have a combined five AFCON trophies will raise the curtain for the Group C games on Monday, January 10, 2022, at 4 pm Ghanaian time.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco have a better head-to-head against Ghana as they have beaten the Black Stars on five occasions out of the eleven games played between the two countries. <\/p>\n<p>Three of the games between the two countries ended in a draw while Ghana have beaten the Atlas Lions three times.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars are chasing their 5th AFCON trophy while the Moroccans are hoping to break their quarter-final curse in their bid to win their second trophy after 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the pre-match conference, coach Halilhodzic stated that they are anticipating a tough game from the Black Stars because of Ghana\u2019s rich history in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana is a team with a great history in African football. They have won the cup four times, the match against the Black Stars will certainly be difficult.\u201d Halilhodzic said at a pre-match briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that our history is not as rich as other teams, but this generation is motivated and determined to achieve a historic feat during this Africa Cup of Nations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vahid Halilhodzic is the head coach of the Atlas Lions of Morocco Head coach of the Atlas Lions of Morocco, Vahid Halilhodzic is expecting a tough test against the Black Stars in the Group C opener in the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The two countries (Morocco &amp; Ghana) that have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743102","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\/743102","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=743102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}