{"id":27616,"date":"2014-06-26T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=27616"},"modified":"2014-06-26T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:44:35","slug":"warris-badu-replace-boatengmuntari-against-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=27616","title":{"rendered":"Waris, Badu replace Boateng, Muntari against Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Majeed Waris has been handed a World Cup debut by coach Kwesi Appiah for Thursday&#8217;s match against Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Appiah made two changes to the team that drew with Germany on Saturday, with Agyeman Badu also handed a start for the first time in the tournament, replacing the suspended Muntari.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Fatau Dauda keeps his place in goal after replacing Adam Kwarasey for the game against Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will be hoping to put recent off-field issues behind them to pick up the three points they need to have any chance of progressing from the group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghana Starting IX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fatau Dauda, Harrison Afful, Kwadwo Asamoah, John Boye, Jonathan Mensah, Rabiu Mohammed, Christian Atsu, Agyemang Badu, Majeed Waris, Asamoah Gyan, Andre Ayew<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Majeed Waris has been handed a World Cup debut by coach Kwesi Appiah for Thursday&#8217;s match against Portugal. Kwesi Appiah made two changes to the team that drew with Germany on Saturday, with Agyeman Badu also handed a start for the first time in the tournament, replacing the suspended Muntari. Goalkeeper Fatau Dauda keeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":27627,"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-27616","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\/27616","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}