{"id":745004,"date":"2022-01-11T17:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/clubs-have-to-respect-afcon\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:18:40","slug":"clubs-have-to-respect-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/clubs-have-to-respect-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Clubs Have To Respect AFCON\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Andr\u00e9-Frank Zambo Anguissa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa says it wasn\u2019t an easy decision to step away from Napoli\u2019s title charge midway through the Serie A season to join Cameroon\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations squad, but he has the full backing of his club during the continental showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>The club-versus-country row has been one of the key talking points during the build-up to the 33rd edition of the AFCON, with some players \u2014 including Liverpool\u2019s Joel Matip and Emmanuel Dennis of Watford \u2014 opting out of the competition in order to help their club campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being a key figure in a Napoli side at a critical juncture in their Serie A title bid, Zambo Anguissa, speaking after Cameroon\u2019s opening 2-1 AFCON victory over Burkina Faso, has revealed the club\u2019s support for his international ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always delicate for a player to leave his team, but the club have to understand that the Africa Cup of Nations is an important thing when you\u2019re an African player, and they have to respect that as well,\u201d he told ESPN. \u201cIn my situation, the club didn\u2019t have a problem, even though they know that I\u2019m an important component at the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andr\u00e9-Frank Zambo Anguissa Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa says it wasn\u2019t an easy decision to step away from Napoli\u2019s title charge midway through the Serie A season to join Cameroon\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations squad, but he has the full backing of his club during the continental showpiece. The club-versus-country row has been one of the key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,1236,1237],"class_list":["post-745004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-clubs","tag-respect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745004","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=745004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}