{"id":976035,"date":"2022-02-04T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/dont-hesitate-to-snub-ghana-for-other-countries-ex-black-stars-forward-tells-players\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:45:30","slug":"dont-hesitate-to-snub-ghana-for-other-countries-ex-black-stars-forward-tells-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/dont-hesitate-to-snub-ghana-for-other-countries-ex-black-stars-forward-tells-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Hesitate to Snub Ghana For Other Countries &#8211; Ex-Black Stars Forward Tells Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Ex-Ghana international, Charles Taylor has charged players abroad not to hesitate in switching allegiance away from the West African nation if the chance arises.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dd1cf21675da4dc6aab67047f0bc6107\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to the Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko legend, the structures and systems pertaining in Ghana do not create conducive atmosphere for players in the diaspora. \u201cLet\u2019s ask ourselves why these players don\u2019t want to come and play for the Black Stars. \u201cMaybe they have seen something because whatever has happened to someone might happen to them. \u201cI have said that, players abroad should not hesitate to switch allegiance away from Ghana. \u201cGhana is a matter of a year [fhen you are off the scene].<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/6df932f6ca6545258fdbe184704a086a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Forwards, Inaki Williams of Atletico Bilbao and Chelsea\u2019s Callum Hudson Odoi are bit a few players who Ghana has struggled to convince to play for the national team with the former openly declaring his unavailability. The Black Stars showed up at the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of National in Cameroon but failed to glitter &#8211; bowing out from the group stage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/d9d99400b3284927b8fe838be96d4e45\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The four time African champions lost two Group C games and drew one, collecting just a point and exiting at the first stage for the first since 2006. They lost 1-0 and 3-2 to Morocco and debutants, Comoros in the first and third group games before drawing 1-1 with the Panthers of Gabon. The next stop is the final phase of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Nigeria over two legs in March.<\/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\">\nAfrican<br \/>\nBlack Stars<br \/>\nCharles Taylor<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nInaki Williams<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Ghana international, Charles Taylor has charged players abroad not to hesitate in switching allegiance away from the West African nation if the chance arises. According to the Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko legend, the structures and systems pertaining in Ghana do not create conducive atmosphere for players in the diaspora. \u201cLet\u2019s ask ourselves why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976035","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\/976035","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=976035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}