{"id":744221,"date":"2022-01-11T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/mahama-wishes-black-stars-well-ahead-of-1st-game\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:01:41","slug":"mahama-wishes-black-stars-well-ahead-of-1st-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/mahama-wishes-black-stars-well-ahead-of-1st-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama wishes Black Stars well ahead of 1st game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"424\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Black-Stars-637x424-1.jpg\"   alt=\"Black Stars\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama has extended goodwill wishes to the Black Stars of Ghana ahead of the team\u2019s opening game against Morocco later this afternoon and in subsequent matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 Presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress in a Facebook post highlighted the importance of the sports, adding that the senior national team has unwavering support at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball unites people, and we are all happy to rally behind the Black Stars to play well and annex our 5th African Cup Trophy after many years,\u201d he wrote on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will go into the tournament looking to end a 40-year wait for an AFCON trophy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars last won the trophy in 1982, where they beat host nation, Libya, on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the West African side has managed three final appearances, falling short on each occasion \u2013 the recent 2015 loss to Ivory Coast on penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FJDMahama%2Fposts%2F5126329710711477&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"513\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/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=\"ilR8Nbpalvo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obra on Adom TV (10-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ilR8Nbpalvo?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>Black Stars Former President John Dramani Mahama has extended goodwill wishes to the Black Stars of Ghana ahead of the team\u2019s opening game against Morocco later this afternoon and in subsequent matches.\u201d The 2020 Presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress in a Facebook post highlighted the importance of the sports, adding that the senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1124,260,94,281,1125,95,1126],"class_list":["post-744221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-1st","tag-ahead","tag-black","tag-game","tag-mahama","tag-stars","tag-wishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744221","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=744221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}