{"id":303649,"date":"2017-03-21T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=303649"},"modified":"2017-03-21T17:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T17:05:28","slug":"gfa-denies-dissolving-black-stars-backroom-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=303649","title":{"rendered":"GFA denies dissolving Black Stars backroom staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Football Association has rubbished claims that the current technical team of the Black Stars has been dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty over who becomes the successor to Avram Grant has sparked a number of reports in the media surrounding the back room staff.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach\u2019s position is currently occupied by the assistant manager of the team Maxwell Konadu on an interim basis while the six-man search committee goes about its business of trying to get a replacement for the Israeli manager.<\/p>\n<p>Former head coach of the Black Stars during the Brazil 2014 World Cup Kwesi Appiah is being heavily tipped to bag the job.<\/p>\n<p>The FA has called the reports fabrications and an attempt to create mischief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe backroom staff of the team is still in place until any orders to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil then they are still in charge and hold the mandate as the technical team of the stars,\u201d Communications Director of the GFA Ibrahim Saani Daara told Citi Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The FA is expected to begin scrutinising candidates that have submitted their applications for the top job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Nketsia\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-inner\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Football Association has rubbished claims that the current technical team of the Black Stars has been dissolved. Uncertainty over who becomes the successor to Avram Grant has sparked a number of reports in the media surrounding the back room staff. The head coach\u2019s position is currently occupied by the assistant manager of the [&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":[216,2560,1428],"class_list":["post-303649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gfa","tag-ghana-black-stars","tag-ghana-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303649","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=303649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}