{"id":174782,"date":"2015-12-16T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=174782"},"modified":"2015-12-16T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T09:37:18","slug":"e-k-afranie-2015-was-a-good-year-for-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=174782","title":{"rendered":"E.K. Afranie: 2015 was a good year for football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former national team coach E.K. Afranie has described the 2015 football year as \u201dsuccessful\u201d for the nation with the Black Queens winning gold at the All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars finished second in the 2015 AFCON after losing to Cote d\u2019Ivoire in the finals while the Black Princesses qualified to the 2016 FIFA Women\u2019s U-20 World Cup in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_174783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174783\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Andre-Ayew-in-tears.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-174783 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Andre-Ayew-in-tears.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Ayew in tears after Ghana lost out on the 2015 AFCON.\" width=\"830\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Andre-Ayew-in-tears.jpg 830w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Andre-Ayew-in-tears-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-174783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Ayew in tears after Ghana lost out on the 2015 AFCON.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For Afranie, these achievements have made the year a good one for Ghana in terms of football especially in the area of growing talents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe year was not that bad at all for us. I have heard a lot of people say that local football was not the best but when it comes to the national teams, I believe we did well. The women\u2019s team won gold and that should tell us to pay more attention to them. When we talk about football development, we should not forget about the women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Black-Queens1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-174784 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Black-Queens1.jpg\" alt=\"Black-Queens1\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Black-Queens1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Black-Queens1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Princesses have made it to the next World Cup and we see that both our male and female teams are now participating more regularly in the international competitions.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former national team coach E.K. Afranie has described the 2015 football year as \u201dsuccessful\u201d for the nation with the Black Queens winning gold at the All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville. The Black Stars finished second in the 2015 AFCON after losing to Cote d\u2019Ivoire in the finals while the Black Princesses qualified to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":174785,"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":[29,38],"class_list":["post-174782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174782","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}