{"id":8547,"date":"2014-03-25T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2014-03-25T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:32:40","slug":"ghana-to-go-all-out-in-brazil-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=8547","title":{"rendered":"Ghana to go all out in Brazil &#8211; Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8548\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kapp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8548\" alt=\"Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kapp-300x208.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kapp-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kapp.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some of the best players in the world have found themselves in Ghana&#8217;s group of Brazil 2014, but Kwesi Appiah remains bullish about positive prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Germany are three-time world champions and Portugal\u00a0as respected in the European game. The United States of America are led by a shrewd tactician and have improving players, leaving Ghana&#8217;s chances of advancing to the next stage not too bright.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;Now we&#8217;re looking forward to\u00a0Brazil. All of my players are at very good clubs so there&#8217;s no reason to be cautious. We&#8217;re going there full of confidence,&#8221; Appiah told\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">FIFA Weekly<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want us to be the best team in the World,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the World Cup in\u00a0Brazil, we can go further than we did in\u00a0South Africa\u00a0four years ago. We can become greater than the sum of our parts and reach the semi-final or the final.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u00a0open their campaign against the\u00a0US, before games against\u00a0Germany\u00a0and\u00a0Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>By: Gary Al-Smith\/Citifmonlinecom\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyalsmith\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @garyalsmith<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the best players in the world have found themselves in Ghana&#8217;s group of Brazil 2014, but Kwesi Appiah remains bullish about positive prospects. Germany are three-time world champions and Portugal\u00a0as respected in the European game. The United States of America are led by a shrewd tactician and have improving players, leaving Ghana&#8217;s chances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8548,"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":[121,117],"tags":[118,119,120,122,29,123,3,114],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-odd","tag-advertisers-association-of-ghana","tag-ama","tag-billboard-advertising","tag-bokpin","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-energy-bond","tag-ghana-news","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","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=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}