{"id":2399,"date":"2014-02-26T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2014-02-26T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T09:40:54","slug":"montenegro-v-ghana-why-dauda-and-rabiu-were-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"Montenegro v Ghana: Why Dauda and Rabiu were dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2403\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fatau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2403\" alt=\"Fatau Dauda\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fatau-300x241.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fatau-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/fatau.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fatau Dauda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The exclusion of first choice Ghana goalkeeper Fatau Dauda and midfield regular Mohammed Rabiu from the Black Stars squad to face Montenegro has led the FA to react.<\/p>\n<p>A friendly international will be played in Podgorica on March 5, but both players were not called by Kwesi Appiah for what is being called as a key pre-World Cup warm up game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dauda has been seen so many times by the coach. The coach also wants to give others the chance, which is why Stephen Adams has been invited alongside Adam Kwarasey,&#8221; Daara said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kwesi Appiah wants to give all players at least some chance to prove themselves so that he can have a huge pool to draw the World Cup squad from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For 24-year-old Rabiu, he was not called for health reasons, mostly precautionary reasons following his recent problem with injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all know Rabiu went to the treatment room so the coach wants to give him the chance to fully recover,&#8221; the former BBC man ended, speaking to <em>Asempa FM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will be in their third straight World Cup finals in June after improved showings from 2006 to the quarter-finals in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By : Gary Al-Smith\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exclusion of first choice Ghana goalkeeper Fatau Dauda and midfield regular Mohammed Rabiu from the Black Stars squad to face Montenegro has led the FA to react. A friendly international will be played in Podgorica on March 5, but both players were not called by Kwesi Appiah for what is being called as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2403,"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],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}