{"id":759900,"date":"2022-01-21T05:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T05:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/philemon-baffour-merits-black-stars-call-up\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T05:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T05:43:18","slug":"philemon-baffour-merits-black-stars-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/philemon-baffour-merits-black-stars-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Philemon Baffour merits Black Stars call up"},"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\/BAFFOUR-750x536-1-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Philemon Baffour\" title=\"Philemon Baffour\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philemon Baffour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President of the Ghana Football Association, Kurt Okraku, has implored Ghanaians to tone down their criticisms of Dreams FC defender, Philemon Baffour.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old, having failed to make his debut for the country after numerous call-ups, was again named in Milovan Rajevac\u2019s final 28-man squad ahead of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>However, Baffour\u00a0did not feature in any of the group games following the team\u2019s early exit from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on the <strong>Ultimate Sports Show<\/strong> on <strong>Asempa FM<\/strong>,\u00a0Mr Okraku called out Ghanaians for their treatment of the Dreams FC player.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all of us have been unfair to Philemon Baffour, he is a proud son of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was selected by the technical team and there was a reason why he was selected so why is he being picked on? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the coach decides to use Daniel Amartey, it is his prerogative, that does not take the quality of Philemon Baffour away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to stop the unfair criticism and support him, he\u2019s made his mark at the club and U-20 level,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Baffour was part of the Black Satellites team that won the CAF U-20 championship in Mauritania.<\/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=\"M6CNL8R86gI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Power Plant: Government of Ghana takes over Ameri Power Plant \u2013 Adom TV News (20-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M6CNL8R86gI?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>Philemon Baffour President of the Ghana Football Association, Kurt Okraku, has implored Ghanaians to tone down their criticisms of Dreams FC defender, Philemon Baffour. The 20-year-old, having failed to make his debut for the country after numerous call-ups, was again named in Milovan Rajevac\u2019s final 28-man squad ahead of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2556,94,160,2598,2558,95],"class_list":["post-759900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-baffour","tag-black","tag-call","tag-merits","tag-philemon","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759900","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=759900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}