{"id":760280,"date":"2022-01-21T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/afcon-2021-nepotism-took-centre-stage-in-player-selection-amanda-clinton\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:06:34","slug":"afcon-2021-nepotism-took-centre-stage-in-player-selection-amanda-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/afcon-2021-nepotism-took-centre-stage-in-player-selection-amanda-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: Nepotism Took Centre Stage in Player Selection &#8211; Amanda Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Corporate lawyer, Amanda Clinton says \u201cnepotism\u201d was the sole base on which players were invited into Ghana\u2019s senior men\u2019s team, the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cada7cf9b08d4995948c37a0300d54d2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The young yet experienced legal brain, who broke barriers to become the first female to contest for the Ghana FA position in 2019,\u00a0has accused national team selectors for inviting players who do not merit the call up. \u201cI think we [Ghana] are paying the coach $50,000 a month and we don\u2019t pay Ghanaian coaches that much. \u201cSo ultimately, it\u2019s about choosing the line up and only nepotism could have got those players in the team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/de475e52fe9e4e9d903c22ed07e80218\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the line up does not seem right and if Ghana should struggle with underdogs in Africa, we definitely struggle with South Africa and Nigeria.\u201d Amanda Clinton told Edubiaseman fm. Ghana for the first time in 2006 had a botched tournament in Cameroon after exiting the AFCON in the group stage with just a point in three games. An opening defeat to North Africans and one time winners, Morocco set the tone for what turned out to be an eventual debacle. The four time African champions were not any better against Gabon in their second game after relinquishing a 1-0 lead to draw 1-1 with the Panthers at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/256036d799df4365b5d45d8307dd0f09\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The third and final Group C game irked Ghanaians to the marrow following a 3-2 loss to debutants, Comoros despite coming back twice with ten men down. They finished bottom behind Comoros in third, Gabon in second with Morocco topping the group. The West African nation must wait for another chance in the 34th edition to be staged in C\u00f4te D\u2019Ivoire in 2023 to be able to break what will then become a 41-year trophy drought.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAFCON<br \/>\nAmanda Clinton<br \/>\nNepotism<br \/>\nNigeria<br \/>\nSouth Africa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate lawyer, Amanda Clinton says \u201cnepotism\u201d was the sole base on which players were invited into Ghana\u2019s senior men\u2019s team, the Black Stars. The young yet experienced legal brain, who broke barriers to become the first female to contest for the Ghana FA position in 2019,\u00a0has accused national team selectors for inviting players who do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760280","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=760280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}