{"id":256242,"date":"2016-10-09T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T07:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256242"},"modified":"2016-10-09T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T07:29:23","slug":"tamale-chief-blames-gfa-sports-ministry-for-ghanas-0-0-draw-with-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256242","title":{"rendered":"Tamale chief blames GFA, Sports Ministry for Ghana\u2019s 0-0 draw with Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chief in Tamale, Naa Dakpema Mohammed Alhassan, has blamed the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the Ministry of Youth and Sports after the Black Stars played out a goalless game with the Cranes of the Uganda in the 2018 World Cup Qualifier on Friday.<\/p>\n<article class=\"post-listing post-62866 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-black-stars category-top-story\">\n<div class=\"post-inner\">\n<div class=\"entry\">Despite being huge favourites the Black Stars failed to make home advantage count and eventually dropped two points in their opening fixture of the Russia 2018 World Cup Qualifiers.The match was moved to Tamale after poor attendance in previous matches at the stadiums in Kumasi and Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The late change\u00a0did not go down too well with the managers of the stadium who had to wor overtime to get the pitch ready for the game. \u00a0state of the pitch was berated by the players and coach.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the work that was done on it, the\u00a0pitch was berated by the players and coach following the game.<\/p>\n<p>According to Naba Dakpema the proper steps would have been taken to ensure Ghana\u2019s victory in the match had he and his elders had he been informed earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact yesterday I was very sad because we were unable to take victory,\u201d Naa Dakpeman said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have wished to be in formed earlier about the game so I can pray well for the victory. But anyway a draw is better than a defeat so we will take it like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chief in Tamale, Naa Dakpema Mohammed Alhassan, has blamed the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the Ministry of Youth and Sports after the Black Stars played out a goalless game with the Cranes of the Uganda in the 2018 World Cup Qualifier on Friday. Despite being huge favourites the Black Stars failed to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":256243,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256242","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=256242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}