{"id":119574,"date":"2023-11-14T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T09:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/14\/black-stars-leave-for-kumasi-ahead-of-madagascar-game\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T09:38:29","slug":"black-stars-leave-for-kumasi-ahead-of-madagascar-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/14\/black-stars-leave-for-kumasi-ahead-of-madagascar-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars leave for Kumasi ahead of Madagascar game\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231114_074909-750x536-1-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"20231114_074909-750x536\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Black Stars will fly to Kumasi today for their 2026 World Cup qualifiers on Friday, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has confirmed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Black Stars will hold its first training at the Baba Yara Sports stadium Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uded1 Tuesday and Wednesday\u2019s training sessions will be behind closed doors. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/STlLHdDqqK\">pic.twitter.com\/STlLHdDqqK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded Black Stars (@GhanaBlackstars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhanaBlackstars\/status\/1724329903393325068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As per the initial itinerary released by the GFA, the team was scheduled to depart Accra for Kumasi on Wednesday, November 15\u00a0but the plan\u00a0has changed without reasons being provided.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s scheduled training session at the Accra Sports Stadium will take place at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium at the same time with two-thirds of the playing body already in camp.<\/p>\n<p>15 players on Monday opened camp in Accra with the likes of Andre Ayew,\u00a0Alidu Seidu, I\u00f1aki Williams, Joseph Wollacott,\u00a0and Joseph Paintsil, among other players reported to camp.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Fatawu Issahaku and Nurudeen Abdulai who were handed late call-ups to replace Kamaldeen Sulemana and Abdul Mumin.<\/p>\n<p>The first two training sessions at Baba Yara which will happen today and tomorrow will be behind closed doors according to the GFA.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will play Madagascar on Friday at the Baba Yara Stadium\u00a0and then leave for Comoros on Saturday for the second Group I game on Tuesday, November 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=\"vj-o_CDJrWM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sacrilegious Act: Seikwa Oyoko Traditional stool missing, late chief\u2019s grave looted (13-11-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vj-o_CDJrWM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Stars will fly to Kumasi today for their 2026 World Cup qualifiers on Friday, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has confirmed. The Black Stars will hold its first training at the Baba Yara Sports stadium Tuesday afternoon. \ud83d\uded1 Tuesday and Wednesday\u2019s training sessions will be behind closed doors. pic.twitter.com\/STlLHdDqqK \u2014 \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded Black Stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Stars leave for Kumasi ahead of Madagascar game\u00a0 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/14\/black-stars-leave-for-kumasi-ahead-of-madagascar-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Stars leave for Kumasi ahead of Madagascar game\u00a0 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Black Stars will fly to Kumasi today for their 2026 World Cup qualifiers on Friday, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has confirmed. 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