{"id":63265,"date":"2014-11-08T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=63265"},"modified":"2014-11-08T16:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T16:07:02","slug":"grant-relishes-chance-coach-best-team-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=63265","title":{"rendered":"Grant relishes chance to coach &#8216;best team in Africa&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #081f2c;\">Yet-to-be unveiled Ghana coach Avram Grant is glad to have been given the opportunity to coach one of the &#8220;best\u00a0football nations&#8221; on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #081f2c;\">The former Chelsea, Portsmouth, West Ham and Partizan Belgrade manager has agreed in principle to coach the four-time African champions and will have to agree on financial terms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #081f2c;\">\u201cIt is a great honour to be given the nod to handle arguably the best soccer nation on the continent. I am very delighted with this opportunity and I will do my best to move the Black Stars forward,\u201d Grant told\u00a0<em>Footballmadeinghana<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #081f2c;\">\u201cI already know and monitor almost all the Ghanaian players playing abroad and I also know some of them playing in the local league so it will never be a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #081f2c;\">The 59-year-old Israeli led Chelsea to the Champions League finals in 2008 and also masterminded Portsmouth FA Cup finals berth in 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #081f2c;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #081f2c;\">Source: Goal.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet-to-be unveiled Ghana coach Avram Grant is glad to have been given the opportunity to coach one of the &#8220;best\u00a0football nations&#8221; on the African continent. The former Chelsea, Portsmouth, West Ham and Partizan Belgrade manager has agreed in principle to coach the four-time African champions and will have to agree on financial terms. \u201cIt is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":63273,"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-63265","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\/63265","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=63265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}