{"id":101999,"date":"2015-03-24T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=101999"},"modified":"2015-03-24T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:56:04","slug":"black-stars-players-refer-to-grant-as-mohammed-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/black-stars-players-refer-to-grant-as-mohammed-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars players refer to Grant as Mohammed Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association, Ibrahim Saanie Daara has heaped praise on Ghana coach Avram Grant, claiming he is like \u201cMohamed Ali\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cUOr7UpS8h83ZmYFjXuBXh9fTj54Pibu&#8221;]The Israeli coach was at the helm of the Black Stars at the 2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea as the team finished runners up to Ivory Coast in a penalty shootout loss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saanie Daara is confident the former Chelsea manager would help propel the Football Association\u2019s ambitions to greater heights through his inspirational speeches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe (Avram Grant) will move us forward. I have observed that he isolates players, tell them what their strengths are and motivate them.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have not seen anything like that in the national team. He uses life examples and the players even call him Mohamed Ali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe used the analogy of Mohamed Ali\u2019s career to inspire the team after Ghana lost to Senegal in the AFCON 2015 and it worked so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Partizan Belgrade manager has two years remaining on his contract and has been tasked to help the West African nation win the 2017 African Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Thierry Nyann\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association, Ibrahim Saanie Daara has heaped praise on Ghana coach Avram Grant, claiming he is like \u201cMohamed Ali\u201d. 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