{"id":751137,"date":"2022-01-15T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/milovan-is-using-the-afcon-as-study-grounds-for-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T13:48:57","slug":"milovan-is-using-the-afcon-as-study-grounds-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/milovan-is-using-the-afcon-as-study-grounds-for-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Milovan is using the AFCON as study grounds for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday, 15 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>stvafrica<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-15<\/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\/72344126.295.jpg\" alt=\"Black Stars head coach, Milovan Rajevac\" title=\"Black Stars head coach, Milovan Rajevac\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/> <span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Black Stars head coach, Milovan Rajevac<\/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\">Football fanatic and CEO of BMT pub, Tsuka has stated that the Ghanaian coach, Milovan Rajevac\u2019s focus is the World Cup and not the AFCON. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on SVTV Africa, Tsuka indicated that Milovan was invited to qualify the Black Stars for the World Cup, and he\u2019s using the African Cup of Nations as training grounds for that. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coach\u2019s focus is not the AFCON. We bought him to qualify us for the World Cup. That&#8217;s basically why we brought him. But as Ghanaians, our focus is the AFCON because we haven&#8217;t won in many years. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this should have been the set for the AFCON. The right-back is not good. He&#8217;s not the right person to use. For our defensive players; Dziku and Amartey are good. But I have a problem with Jonathan Mensah being on the bench,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, January 14, Ghana played against Gabon and scored a goal in the first half. At the 85th minute, Gabon scored too. <\/p>\n<p><b>Kindly watch the full interview below<\/b><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ZRslwb3lB9g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AFCON 2021: Ghana \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded vs Gabon \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde6 Comments From Some Ghanaians About The Game &amp; The Team\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZRslwb3lB9g?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Saturday, 15 January 2022 Source: stvafrica 2022-01-15 play videoBlack Stars head coach, Milovan Rajevac Football fanatic and CEO of BMT pub, Tsuka has stated that the Ghanaian coach, Milovan Rajevac\u2019s focus is the World Cup and not the AFCON. Speaking on SVTV Africa, Tsuka indicated that Milovan was invited to qualify the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751137","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\/751137","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=751137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}