{"id":186934,"date":"2024-06-05T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T08:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/05\/black-stars-depart-ghana-for-world-cup-qualifier-against-mali\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T08:36:57","slug":"black-stars-depart-ghana-for-world-cup-qualifier-against-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/05\/black-stars-depart-ghana-for-world-cup-qualifier-against-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars depart Ghana for World Cup qualifier against Mali \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Black Stars have departed Ghana to face Mali in the third round of the qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana national team left the country on Tuesday, June 4.<\/p>\n<p>Led by head coach Otto Addo, the Black Stars have been training in Ghana since last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since the team commenced camp in Accra, all 26 players invited to the camp participated in the training session.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival in Bamako, the Black Stars will train on Wednesday to finalize preparations for the match against Mali on Thursday, June 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out pictures of the Black Stars players departing Ghana for Mali below<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re off to Bamako for the FIFA World Cup Matchday 3 qualifier against Mali. \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf1\ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackStars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackStars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HzSIk6kHmW\">pic.twitter.com\/HzSIk6kHmW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded Black Stars (@GhanaBlackstars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhanaBlackstars\/status\/1798039150731653219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/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 have departed Ghana to face Mali in the third round of the qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Ghana national team left the country on Tuesday, June 4. Led by head coach Otto Addo, the Black Stars have been training in Ghana since last Friday. For the first time since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black Stars depart Ghana for World Cup qualifier against Mali \u2013 - 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\/2024\/06\/05\/black-stars-depart-ghana-for-world-cup-qualifier-against-mali\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Stars depart Ghana for World Cup qualifier against Mali \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Black Stars have departed Ghana to face Mali in the third round of the qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 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