{"id":75834,"date":"2023-06-13T16:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/13\/u-23-afcon-make-history-in-morocco\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T16:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:41:43","slug":"u-23-afcon-make-history-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/13\/u-23-afcon-make-history-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"U-23 AFCON: Make history in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"496\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1680195182_890_Screenshot-2023-03-28-175652-696x496.png\"   alt=\"Black Meteors\" title=\"Black Meteors\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Meteors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vice President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mark Addo, has urged the\u00a0Black Meteors to make history for the upcoming U-23 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament to be held in Morrocco.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Tanko and his charges arrived in Cairo to continue their preparations for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will be hoping to make the final three to secure a place in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Before the team left the shores of the country,\u00a0Mark Addo admonished them to make Ghana proud while lauding them for their recent achieving qualification to the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to congratulate this team for what you have accomplished so far,\u201d he said as reported by Ghana FA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want your names written in history this is the time. Always have the mentality that we are not going to Morocco to participate. You must go there and add your names to history,\u201d Mark Addo told the Black Meteors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole country will be supporting you and will be yearning for something special from you,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Black Stars players, Enerst Nuamah, Kamaldeen Sulemana and Ransford-Yeboah Konigsdorffer are expected to join the team after Ghana\u2019s AFCON qualifier with Madagascar on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the preparations, the team is expected to engage their Egyptian counterparts in a pre-tournament friendly with a few more to come as they prepare for tough opponents in Morocco, the hosts, Congo and Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament kicks off on June 24 and ends on July 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/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=\"W2RKIkF-_74\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Port Business: Takoradi can now compete with other ports in West Africa   (13-06-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W2RKIkF-_74?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>Black Meteors Vice President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mark Addo, has urged the\u00a0Black Meteors to make history for the upcoming U-23 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament to be held in Morrocco. 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