{"id":745763,"date":"2022-01-12T06:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T06:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/ex-defender-john-paintsil-confident-black-stars-will-win-gold\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T06:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T06:44:46","slug":"ex-defender-john-paintsil-confident-black-stars-will-win-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/ex-defender-john-paintsil-confident-black-stars-will-win-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-defender John Paintsil confident Black Stars will win gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday, 12 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>footballghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/74217649.295.jpg\" alt=\"John Painstil, former Black Stars defender\" title=\"John Painstil, former Black Stars defender\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>John Painstil, former Black Stars defender<\/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\">Former Ghana defender, John Paintsil has insisted that the Black Stars can still annex the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Milovan Rajevac&#8217;s team suffered a 1-0 defeat to Morocco in their Group C opener.<\/p>\n<p>Sofiane Boufal&#8217;s 82nd-minute strike made the difference at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the defeat, the former West Ham United and Leicester City right-back remains optimistic that the Black Stars will end the country&#8217;s 40 years trophy drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can smell it. I don\u2019t want to put pressure on the players,\u201d he said as reported by 3Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Paintsil further indicated that the AFCON tournament can be used to prepare the boys for the World Cup playoffs later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can use this AFCON to prepare the players for the World Cup,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will be hoping to return to winning ways on Friday when they take on Gabon in their second Group C game. Gabon won their first game by a lone goal against Comoros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Wednesday, 12 January 2022 Source: footballghana.com 2022-01-12 John Painstil, former Black Stars defender Former Ghana defender, John Paintsil has insisted that the Black Stars can still annex the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon. Milovan Rajevac&#8217;s team suffered a 1-0 defeat to Morocco in their Group C opener. Sofiane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745763","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\/745763","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=745763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}