Sports News of Friday, 14 January 2022<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>GNA<\/p>\n 2022-01-14<\/p>\n Mr. Kurt E.S Okraku, President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has called on Ghanaians to exercise patience and support the Black Stars in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) ongoing in Cameroon.<\/p>\n Speaking to the media after the team\u2019s training at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo annex, Mr. Okraku said the Black Stars is dominated by 17 debutant players, hence the need for Ghanaians to be patient and rally behind the team.<\/p>\n The GFA President, however, believes the team has a bright future and confident the Black Stars would advance to the next stage and reach far in the tourney.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cGhanaians should be patient with us, the team is dominated with young players and if we get our axes together, this team is capable of going far.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Okraku expressed disappointment in the painful 1-0 loss to Morocco in Group C opening match on Monday but said the team would bounce back to winning ways and conquer Gabon and Comoros in the two group matches left.<\/p>\n \u201cI was not happy with the results but I\u2019m happy about how the team turned out. Morocco is a disciplined side and one of the best on the continent, but we are in a better position to go forward.<\/p>\n \u201cWe came here to truly represent our dear country and make ourselves proud. We knew we have to play three games to make it to the next level. We played a tough game against Morocco. We were very structured, disciplined, but unfortunately, it didn\u2019t go our way.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the team has recovered from that and training sessions have been very good. We will come back to winning ways. I\u2019m positive about our game on Friday. The boys have recovered and I want Ghanaians to throw their support behind the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Ghana would face the Panthers of Gabon in a must-win game on Friday, January 14 at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sports News of Friday, 14 January 2022 Source: GNA 2022-01-14 Ghana is scheduled to play against Gabon at 7pm on January 14 Mr. Kurt E.S Okraku, President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has called on Ghanaians to exercise patience and support the Black Stars in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) ongoing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,230,834,377,275,95],"class_list":["post-749757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-calls","tag-ghanaians","tag-patient","tag-president","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749757","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=749757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ghana](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/48240507.295.jpg\" "\\"Ghana")
Ghana is scheduled to play against Gabon at 7pm on January 14<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n