{"id":744959,"date":"2022-01-11T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/afcon-2021-we-wont-give-up\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:33:16","slug":"afcon-2021-we-wont-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/afcon-2021-we-wont-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: We won\u2019t give up"},"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\/21606988.295.jpg\" alt=\"Black Stars midfielder, Thomas Partey\" title=\"Black Stars midfielder, Thomas Partey\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Black Stars midfielder, Thomas Partey<\/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\"><b> Morocco defeats Black Stars in AFCON 2021 opener<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ghanaians slam Black Stars after defeat to Morocco<\/p>\n<p>Partey assures fans of Black Stars commitment to win games<\/p>\n<p>Deputy captain of the Black Stars, Thomas Partey has disclosed that the team would not give up on their quest to win the 2021 African Cup of Nations trophy. <\/p>\n<p>Morocco pip Ghana 1-0 at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo to go top of the group with three points in the opening Group C game of the 2021 AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>Sofiane Boufal put the dagger through the hearts of Ghanaians with a late strike after Thomas Partey committed a blunder in the box.  <\/p>\n<p>The Atlas Lions player made no mistake as he put the ball beyond the reach of Black Stars goalkeeper, Jojo Wollacott.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars had a good start but did not create the openings they would want to as Morocco were organized.<\/p>\n<p>However, after the game the Arsenal man, Thomas Partey took to social media to not only express his disappointment but also assure that the team would not give up on their quest win the trophy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot the results we wanted but we won\u2019t give up,\u201d Partey wrote on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars&#8217; next game would be against Gabon on Friday, January 14, 2022, at 7 pm.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FThomasPartey5%2Fposts%2F489948029153192&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"670\" 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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars midfielder, Thomas Partey Morocco defeats Black Stars in AFCON 2021 opener Ghanaians slam Black Stars after defeat to Morocco Partey assures fans of Black Stars commitment to win games Deputy captain of the Black Stars, Thomas Partey has disclosed that the team would not give up on their quest to win the 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744959","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\/744959","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=744959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}