{"id":761301,"date":"2022-01-22T01:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T01:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/22\/2021-afcon-we-have-disappointed-govt\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T01:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T01:24:42","slug":"2021-afcon-we-have-disappointed-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/22\/2021-afcon-we-have-disappointed-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 AFCON: We have disappointed govt"},"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\/FB_IMG_1572464467507-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"President Akufo-Addo and GFA President, Kurt Okraku\" title=\"President Akufo-Addo and GFA President, Kurt Okraku\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Nana Akufo-Addo and GFA President, Kurt Okraku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana Football Association [GFA] president, Kurt Okraku, has admitted his outfit and the Black Stars\u00a0had all the necessary support from the government to ensure they perform, yet they failed.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars were bundled out of the competition after failing to record a win after three games played.<\/p>\n<p>The team finished 4th with just a point after losing to Morocco in their Group C opener.<\/p>\n<p>Milovan Rajevac and his charges picked up a point against Gabon before suffering a humiliating 3-2 defeat to Comoros in the final group game.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Asempa FM on the Ultimate Sports Show, Mr Okraku admitted the team enjoyed all the necessary support in terms of cooperation, finance and logistics from the central government and the sector minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government, like I said from the beginning, gave us all the support. From the President of the land to the sector minister, they gave us all the support,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a group of dedicated players, unfortunately, their effort was not enough,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars and GFA have come under eminent fire from the public for the disappointing show at the 2021 AFCON in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, in a release on Wednesday, summoned an emergency meeting with the GFA on Friday, January 21.<\/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=\"8sQX7Mmop-0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (21-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8sQX7Mmop-0?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>President Nana Akufo-Addo and GFA President, Kurt Okraku Ghana Football Association [GFA] president, Kurt Okraku, has admitted his outfit and the Black Stars\u00a0had all the necessary support from the government to ensure they perform, yet they failed. The Black Stars were bundled out of the competition after failing to record a win after three games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,1140,225],"class_list":["post-761301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-disappointed","tag-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761301","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=761301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}