{"id":994880,"date":"2022-02-17T13:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/ghanas-four-afcon-trophies-missing-reports\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:39:36","slug":"ghanas-four-afcon-trophies-missing-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/ghanas-four-afcon-trophies-missing-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s four Afcon trophies missing &#8211; Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1641568567_816_z6ls40davbv3kyrm2x2l-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"AFCON trophy\" title=\"AFCON trophy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFCON trophy <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to multiple media reports,\u00a0the four\u00a0Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)\u00a0trophies won by Ghana are nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana won the continental title\u00a0in 1963, 1965, 1978 and 1982 but has struggled to make an impact in the last 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Ghana\u2019s poor record keeping, sports journalist Saddick Adams said the replica AFCON trophies given to Ghana by CAF cannot be traced.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he tried tracking the trophies before the 2019 AFCON and was told they were missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know that CAF gives you a replica when you win the trophy but then, you get the golden one when you win it for keeps [three times].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the 2019 AFCON, I asked questions about the four trophies that we have won and I was told that we lost the trophies during the Coup when the National Sports Council Office was ransacked,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Under CAF rules, teams that win the AFCON are given a replica of the trophy on a permanent basis and are allowed to keep the original trophy for the two years in-between tournaments before handing it back.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are, however, allowed to keep the original trophy permanently when they win it thrice, an achievement that only Ghana, Cameroon and Egypt have so far attained.<\/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=\"iaIU47GkfGA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boafri basic school at Krachi Nchumuru students sit and write on bare floor-  Adom TV (16-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iaIU47GkfGA?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>AFCON trophy According to multiple media reports,\u00a0the four\u00a0Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)\u00a0trophies won by Ghana are nowhere to be found. Ghana won the continental title\u00a0in 1963, 1965, 1978 and 1982 but has struggled to make an impact in the last 40 years. Speaking about Ghana\u2019s poor record keeping, sports journalist Saddick Adams said the replica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,250,1529,5182,4710],"class_list":["post-994880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-ghanas","tag-missing","tag-reports","tag-trophies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994880","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=994880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}