{"id":83099,"date":"2015-01-17T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T07:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=83099"},"modified":"2015-01-16T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T19:38:59","slug":"ghana-enough-quality-survive-group-c-kwesi-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=83099","title":{"rendered":"Ghana has enough quality to survive group C \u2013 Kwesi Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars debutant, Kwesi Appiah has hailed the quality of players in the Black Stars rank and is confident the team will beat expectations and qualify to the latter stages of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;PvDaClAu0cL7sY3vIHj4PkxCyncbKUon&#8221;]The Black Stars are drawn in Group C alongside continental heavyweights Algeria, South Africa and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>They will play their first game against the Teranga Lions of Senegal on January 19.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of their game against Senegal, Kwesi Appiah is confident the team is well prepared and believes the Black Stars ares going to survive the difficult Group C.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36313\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kwesi-Appiah-Ebola-check.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36313\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kwesi-Appiah-Ebola-check.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Appiah undergoes Ebola checks  Photo: GFA\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwesi Appiah undergoes Ebola checks Photo: GFA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re quietly confident of our chances of succeeding in this tournament and progressing to the latter stages\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In explaining how the Stars were going to fare against the likes of Algeria, Senegal and South Africa, the FC Cambridge forward revealed that \u201cthe atmosphere is brilliant, the chemistry within the team is fantastic. It helps us as a team to be as one on the pitch\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him \u201cFrom the outside looking in, you\u2019d think that is the \u2018group of death &#8211; we\u2019re quietly confident of our chances of succeeding in this tournament and progressing to the latter stages. Obviously they\u2019re extremely talented teams, we\u2019ve just got to give it all we\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars who arrived in Equatorial Guinea on Thursday will resume training today as the gear up for their first game against Senegal\u00a0\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars debutant, Kwesi Appiah has hailed the quality of players in the Black Stars rank and is confident the team will beat expectations and qualify to the latter stages of the competition. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;PvDaClAu0cL7sY3vIHj4PkxCyncbKUon&#8221;]The Black Stars are drawn in Group C alongside continental heavyweights Algeria, South Africa and Senegal. They will play their first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-83099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83099","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=83099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}