{"id":280432,"date":"2016-12-28T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=280432"},"modified":"2016-12-28T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:21:24","slug":"black-stars-begin-training-ahead-of-afcon-2017-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=280432","title":{"rendered":"Black stars begin training ahead of AFCON 2017 [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Stars began preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations with their first training session at the St. Thomas Aquinas School in Accra on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-280434\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blacks-stars-training-2.jpg\" alt=\"blacks-stars-training-2\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A total of 22 players were at the premises of school with surprise inclusions of Raphael Dwamena, Rashid Sumaila and Austria based Ati Zigi all taking part in the training session.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280435 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blacks-stars-training-3.jpg\" alt=\"blacks-stars-training-3\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria based goalkeeper Fatau Dauda, Ghanaian Champions Wa Stars goalie Richard Ofori and Spain based goalkeeper Razak Brimah all took part in today&#8217;s session.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fciti97.3%2Fvideos%2F10154461275121107%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOther players who took part were Latif Blessing of Liberty Professional, Harrison Afful, Jonathan Mensah and Abdul Majeed Waris.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280436 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/blacks-stars-training-4.jpg\" alt=\"blacks-stars-training-4\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Jamaican physical trainer Jamie Lawrence took charge of the entire session.<\/p>\n<p>The team is expected to continue the training at the same venue on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Stars began preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations with their first training session at the St. Thomas Aquinas School in Accra on Wednesday. A total of 22 players were at the premises of school with surprise inclusions of Raphael Dwamena, Rashid Sumaila and Austria based Ati Zigi all taking part in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":280433,"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":[142],"tags":[2497,455,3],"class_list":["post-280432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-afcon-2017","tag-black-stars","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280432","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}