{"id":761762,"date":"2022-01-22T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/22\/gfa-set-to-appoint-interim-coach-for-world-cup-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:30:48","slug":"gfa-set-to-appoint-interim-coach-for-world-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/22\/gfa-set-to-appoint-interim-coach-for-world-cup-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"GFA set to appoint interim coach for World Cup playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/10353105.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana Football Association logo\" title=\"Ghana Football Association logo\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana Football Association logo<\/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\">The Ghana Football Association is set to announce an interim coach to take over from Milovan Rajevac ahead of the 2022 World Cup play-offs as Black Stars. <\/p>\n<p>The Serbian coach has been sacked according to reports making rounds in the media space.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Sports Ministry summoned the GFA to a meeting on Friday and directed the FA to sack the Serbian coach immediately after the country\u2019s exit from the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars finished bottom of Group C behind Morocco, Gabon, and Comoros to exit the competition with just a point.<\/p>\n<p>The GFA has agreed in principle to terminate the contract of the 68-year-old and discussions for a replacement are already underway.<\/p>\n<p>An official announcement is expected to come from the Ghana FA on the exit of the Serbian coach.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the World Cup play-offs coming up in March, the Ghana FA will appoint an interim coach to begin preparations for the crucial qualifiers in March.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana FA will consider appointing a top-notch coach with knowledge about the team, has a recent association with the team, and most importantly, commands the respect of the players.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will find out the team they will play in the World Cup play-offs when the draw is held on Saturday in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is in pot II of the draw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Football Association logo The Ghana Football Association is set to announce an interim coach to take over from Milovan Rajevac ahead of the 2022 World Cup play-offs as Black Stars. The Serbian coach has been sacked according to reports making rounds in the media space. Ghana\u2019s Sports Ministry summoned the GFA to a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2791,1763,262,1615,2792,782,618,784],"class_list":["post-761762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-appoint","tag-coach","tag-cup","tag-gfa","tag-interim","tag-playoffs","tag-set","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761762","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=761762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}