{"id":296954,"date":"2017-02-24T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T10:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296954"},"modified":"2017-02-24T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T10:39:57","slug":"kwesi-appiah-could-return-as-black-stars-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296954","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Appiah could return as Black Stars head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a groundswell of support for Sudan-based Kwesi Appiah to be re-appointed as Black Stars coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Al Khartoum coach has been identified as the heir-apparent after no major achievements in the last 18 months of Avram Grant\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n<p>Appiah has been quiet\u00a0on a possible return to the team but the ex-Ghana captain has garnered some goodwill as far as the job is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>He led the Black Stars to the last four of the Africa Cup of Nations and remains the only Ghanaian coach to have qualified the team to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, he was voted the best coach in Sudan after impressing as head coach of Al Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a groundswell of support for Sudan-based Kwesi Appiah to be re-appointed as Black Stars coach. The Al Khartoum coach has been identified as the heir-apparent after no major achievements in the last 18 months of Avram Grant\u2019s reign. Appiah has been quiet\u00a0on a possible return to the team but the ex-Ghana captain has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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-296954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296954","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=296954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}