{"id":743371,"date":"2022-01-10T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/president-akufo-addo-urges-black-stars-to-win-ghanas-5th-afcon-title\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:37:02","slug":"president-akufo-addo-urges-black-stars-to-win-ghanas-5th-afcon-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/president-akufo-addo-urges-black-stars-to-win-ghanas-5th-afcon-title\/","title":{"rendered":"President Akufo-Addo urges Black Stars to win Ghana\u2019s 5th AFCON title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\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\"><b> Black Stars seeks to end 40-years AFCON drought<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ghana begins AFCON 2021 campaign against Morocco <\/p>\n<p>Akufo-Addo charge Black Stars to win trophy<\/p>\n<p>As the Black Stars commences their campaign at the 2021 African Cup of Nations, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the team to win and bring the trophy home. <\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars have failed in their quest to win the AFCON title in the last 40-years. The four-time African champions last won the trophy in 1982 and have since failed to secure the trophy. <\/p>\n<p>After their last glory, the team has been to three AFCON finals -1992, 2010 and 2015 &#8211; but all efforts have proved futile. <\/p>\n<p>However, in the president&#8217;s message relayed via his Facebook post, Akufo-Addo motivated the team led by coach Milovan Rajevac to be victorious in their quest to win Ghana&#8217;s 5th AFCON title. <\/p>\n<p>The crust of the message was for the team to execute one task and only one &#8211; to go a step further than they did in 1992, 2010 and 2015, when they lost in the finals &#8211; by bringing the trophy back home.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch video below<\/b><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Bay0iSxzLC8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: Watch President Akufo-Addo&#039;s Message To The Black Stars - Your Target Is To Win The Cup!\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bay0iSxzLC8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars seeks to end 40-years AFCON drought Ghana begins AFCON 2021 campaign against Morocco Akufo-Addo charge Black Stars to win trophy As the Black Stars commences their campaign at the 2021 African Cup of Nations, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the team to win and bring the trophy home. The Black Stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1048,93,648,94,250,275,95,400,985,309],"class_list":["post-743371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-5th","tag-afcon","tag-akufoaddo","tag-black","tag-ghanas","tag-president","tag-stars","tag-title","tag-urges","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743371","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=743371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}