{"id":71589,"date":"2014-12-05T12:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T12:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=71589"},"modified":"2014-12-05T12:18:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T12:18:32","slug":"grant-we-will-play-attacking-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=71589","title":{"rendered":"Grant: &#8216;We will play attacking football&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars coach Avram Grant has stated his reign will be characterized by a free flowing attacking style of play. Grant faced the Ghanaian media for the first time as he was officially unveiled as head coach of the senior national team.<\/p>\n<p>He fielded a range of questions such as his objectives ahead of the 2015 AFCON as well as his playing philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Grant told the press his teams would always go for victories but he would be minded by the risks of playing open football.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OrYRAN4jWSYZ2pNlBkmOTo2IvOm1Xqfn&#8221;]&#8221;I really enjoy attractive football and I believe we have quality players to play attractive football. I believe in good and attacking football but at the end of the day you will need balance to get in good shape,\u201d \u00a0he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the team\u2019s players must be aware of the dangers of attacking football.<\/p>\n<p>The players must also work hard not to concede goals with this style.\u201d \u201cIn all,my philosophy is balance.The team will play attractive football with balance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Nketsia\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars coach Avram Grant has stated his reign will be characterized by a free flowing attacking style of play. Grant faced the Ghanaian media for the first time as he was officially unveiled as head coach of the senior national team. He fielded a range of questions such as his objectives ahead of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":71590,"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":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-71589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71589","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}