{"id":101999,"date":"2015-03-24T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=101999"},"modified":"2015-03-24T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:56:04","slug":"black-stars-players-refer-to-grant-as-mohammed-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=101999","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars players refer to Grant as Mohammed Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association, Ibrahim Saanie Daara has heaped praise on Ghana coach Avram Grant, claiming he is like \u201cMohamed Ali\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cUOr7UpS8h83ZmYFjXuBXh9fTj54Pibu&#8221;]The Israeli coach was at the helm of the Black Stars at the 2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea as the team finished runners up to Ivory Coast in a penalty shootout loss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saanie Daara is confident the former Chelsea manager would help propel the Football Association\u2019s ambitions to greater heights through his inspirational speeches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe (Avram Grant) will move us forward. I have observed that he isolates players, tell them what their strengths are and motivate them.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have not seen anything like that in the national team. He uses life examples and the players even call him Mohamed Ali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe used the analogy of Mohamed Ali\u2019s career to inspire the team after Ghana lost to Senegal in the AFCON 2015 and it worked so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Partizan Belgrade manager has two years remaining on his contract and has been tasked to help the West African nation win the 2017 African Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Thierry Nyann\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association, Ibrahim Saanie Daara has heaped praise on Ghana coach Avram Grant, claiming he is like \u201cMohamed Ali\u201d. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cUOr7UpS8h83ZmYFjXuBXh9fTj54Pibu&#8221;]The Israeli coach was at the helm of the Black Stars at the 2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea as the team finished runners up to Ivory Coast in a penalty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":102000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-101999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}