{"id":758012,"date":"2022-01-20T01:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/2021-afcon-black-stars-will-bounce-back\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T01:35:01","slug":"2021-afcon-black-stars-will-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/2021-afcon-black-stars-will-bounce-back\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 AFCON: Black Stars will bounce back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1642642501_160_Auuuuuu-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"Andre Ayew\" title=\"Andre Ayew\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Ayew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana captain,\u00a0Andre Ayew, says he is disappointed the Black Stars have exited the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time African champions exited the tournament with a\u00a03-2 defeat to Comoros in their final Group C game on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The West African country suffered a defeat in their opening game against Morocco and a draw against Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>Following the collapse of the campaign, Andre apologised but assured that the team will bounce back strongly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched it and it\u2019s not a red card,\u201d Ayew told the media in the mixed zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t make them [Ghanaians] proud, we take responsibility for that. We didn\u2019t have a good Afcon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you see the goal we conceded against Morocco versus Gabon, you will see that we were unlucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time the Stars have crashed out of an AFCON without a single win and the first time they\u2019ve exited at the group stage since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we need to learn from this, we need to go back to the drawing board as the players move ahead,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to take criticism, apologise to the fans for not qualifying for the next round. We are disappointed because this is not Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if you guys know me, I leave to fight another day. We are going to work hard and we are going to be back.\u201d<\/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=\"ubqfKim3_kA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nima Riot: Resident of Sunyani appeal for an extension of deadline \u2013 Adom TV News (19-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ubqfKim3_kA?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>Andre Ayew Ghana captain,\u00a0Andre Ayew, says he is disappointed the Black Stars have exited the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon. The four-time African champions exited the tournament with a\u00a03-2 defeat to Comoros in their final Group C game on Tuesday night. The West African country suffered a defeat in their opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,94,2437,95],"class_list":["post-758012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-black","tag-bounce","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758012","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=758012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}