{"id":771859,"date":"2022-01-29T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/29\/sports-minister-reveals-why-black-stars-were-camped-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T13:53:16","slug":"sports-minister-reveals-why-black-stars-were-camped-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/29\/sports-minister-reveals-why-black-stars-were-camped-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister reveals why Black Stars were camped in Qatar"},"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\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-04-26-at-16.57.27-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif\" title=\"Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Youth and Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, has revealed the decision why the Black Stars were camped in Qatar prior to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the 33rd edition of the continent\u2019s most prestigious tournament, the team camped in the Arab country for three weeks before the start of the tournament in Yaounde.<\/p>\n<p>The Minster, who was speaking on the floor of parliament on Wednesday, said part of the reason the team camped in Qatar was the 2022 World Cup would be held there.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the decision was taken in\u00a0a bid to acclimatise with the weather conditions and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry and the GFA agreed to camp in Doha because the Black Stars have the opportunity to qualify for the World Cup and we are going to play Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we get the opportunity to qualify then it\u2019s only important the players acclimatize,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana exited the tournament with just a point and failed to win a game and finished 4th in a group that had Morocco, Gabon and Comoros.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will take on Nigeria in the World Cup Play-off between 23-29 March in a two-legged tie for a spot in the 2022 World Cup.<\/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=\"d9FL-WSInG4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Car Snatchers Convicted \u2013 Adom TV News (28-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d9FL-WSInG4?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>Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif Youth and Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, has revealed the decision why the Black Stars were camped in Qatar prior to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon. Ahead of the 33rd edition of the continent\u2019s most prestigious tournament, the team camped in the Arab country for three weeks before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,3592,1223,2457,51,871,95],"class_list":["post-771859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-camped","tag-minister","tag-qatar","tag-reveals","tag-sports","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771859","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=771859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}