{"id":743598,"date":"2022-01-10T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/afcon-2021-nobody-believes-in-us-we-are-here-to-prove-them-wrong\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T20:32:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:32:41","slug":"afcon-2021-nobody-believes-in-us-we-are-here-to-prove-them-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/afcon-2021-nobody-believes-in-us-we-are-here-to-prove-them-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: Nobody believes in us, we are here to prove them wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/39191722.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana coach, Milovan Rajevac\" title=\"Ghana coach, Milovan Rajevac\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana coach, Milovan Rajevac<\/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\">Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac is determined to prove his doubters wrong with his young squad at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars takes on Morocco in their opening Group C game at the Ahmadou Ahidjio Sports Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian coach named 18 debutants in his 28-man squad  and has one of the youngest teams at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media at the pre-match conference, Milovan Rajevac is optimistic his team will go far in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody believes us. Nobody rates us as favorites for this tournament but we are here to prove them wrong. It&#8217;s good for us\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is hoping to end its 40-year AFCON title drought at this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars are in Group C alongside Morocco, Gabon and Comoros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana coach, Milovan Rajevac Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac is determined to prove his doubters wrong with his young squad at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations tournament. The Black Stars takes on Morocco in their opening Group C game at the Ahmadou Ahidjio Sports Stadium on Monday. The Serbian coach named 18 debutants in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743598","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\/743598","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=743598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}