{"id":49416,"date":"2023-03-26T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/26\/worrying-news-hit-black-stars-as-andre-ayew\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:05:15","slug":"worrying-news-hit-black-stars-as-andre-ayew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/26\/worrying-news-hit-black-stars-as-andre-ayew\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrying news hit Black Stars as Andre Ayew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"478\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1679832315_7_7219C3EC-49B6-4DBD-865C-525ED9D6D523-696x478.jpeg\"   alt=\"Andre Ayew\" title=\"Andre Ayew\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Ayew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andre Ayew has been ruled out of Black Stars\u2019 trip to Angola for the matchday four games of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The captain of the senior national team will sit out of the game due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the Ghana Football Association [GFA], the 33-year-old sustained a knee injury on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Ayew is said to have slipped on his way to the dressing room and hurt his knee as findings of the MRI scan have meant that he has to return to his club for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The former West Ham and Swansea City forward will not travel with the squad to Luanda for the return leg which takes place on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Alexander Djiku, Mohammed Salisu and Denis Odoi are not part of the squad for the return game on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The trio were left out of the travelling party due to various degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will depart Accra on Saturday afternoon for Luanda ahead of the match that will be played at the Est\u00e1dio 11 de Novembro.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Ayew was not part of the 18-man squad that was named for the\u00a0first leg at the Baba Yara Stadium on Thursday. The Black Stars recorded a late 1-0 win against the Palancas Negras of Angola with late Antoine Semenyo\u2019s strike.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Africa champions will be hoping to keep their perfect start intact in the return game.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana sit top of Group E with seven points. The Black Stars are aiming to end the country\u2019s 41 years Afcon trophy drought in Ivory Coast next year.<\/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=\"4mTq8DtK-Gw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minority Fails to Prevent Confirmation of New Ministers - Nnawotwe Yi on Adom TV (25-3-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4mTq8DtK-Gw?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Ayew Andre Ayew has been ruled out of Black Stars\u2019 trip to Angola for the matchday four games of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers. 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According to a statement by the Ghana Football Association [GFA], [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49416","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>Worrying news hit Black Stars as Andre Ayew - 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\/03\/26\/worrying-news-hit-black-stars-as-andre-ayew\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Worrying news hit Black Stars as Andre Ayew - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andre Ayew Andre Ayew has been ruled out of Black Stars\u2019 trip to Angola for the matchday four games of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers. 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