{"id":748609,"date":"2022-01-13T22:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/gfa-boss-sure-of-black-stars-win-against-gabon\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T22:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:59:41","slug":"gfa-boss-sure-of-black-stars-win-against-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/gfa-boss-sure-of-black-stars-win-against-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"GFA boss sure of Black Stars win against Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1642114781_74_Kurt-ES-Okraku-750x536-1-696x497.png\"   alt=\"GFA boss, Kurt Okraku\" title=\"GFA boss, Kurt Okraku\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GFA boss, Kurt Okraku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President of the Ghana Football Association [GFA], Kurt Okraku, says he is positive\u00a0Black Stars will bounce back from the defeat against Morocco when they take on Gabon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The West African country suffered a defeat against the Atlas Lions in the opening game of the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will take on Gabon who won their first game against Comoros in their second Group C game.<\/p>\n<p>25 players trained, excluding captain Andre Ayew, who picked up a head injury in the defeat to Morocco on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Mr Okraku, who observed the training session, said he believes the team has recovered well and will be ready for Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s football governing body boss also called on Ghanaians to throw their weight behind the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played a very tough game against Morocco, I thought we were very structured and disciplined but unfortunately, the ball found its way into the net,\u201d he told the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team recovered ever since, training sessions have been very good, which sends a clear signal about the readiness of the team to return to winning ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extremely positive about our game against Gabon on Friday and I respectfully ask Ghanaians to throw their support behind the boys.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana takes on Gabon on Friday at 7 pm at the Amadhou Ahidjou Stadium.<\/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=\"ckCWDl2LOdY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Sports on Adom TV (13-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ckCWDl2LOdY?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>GFA boss, Kurt Okraku President of the Ghana Football Association [GFA], Kurt Okraku, says he is positive\u00a0Black Stars will bounce back from the defeat against Morocco when they take on Gabon on Friday. The West African country suffered a defeat against the Atlas Lions in the opening game of the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,566,1113,1615,95,309],"class_list":["post-748609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-boss","tag-gabon","tag-gfa","tag-stars","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748609","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=748609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}