{"id":358044,"date":"2017-09-30T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=358044"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:09:26","slug":"there-are-thousands-of-ghanaian-players-i-can-select-from-coach-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/there-are-thousands-of-ghanaian-players-i-can-select-from-coach-appiah\/","title":{"rendered":"There are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from &#8211; Coach Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars coach, James Kwesi Appiah, has said that the team is not only about the Ayew\u2019s and that in his bid to build a strong team for the future \u201cthere are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Appiah announced a 26-man squad for the must-win encounter against the Red Devils in Kampala without the experienced duo.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the GNA Sports on Friday, he explained that his exclusion of Dede Ayew and Jordan Ayew from the squad to face Uganda in a FIFA World Cup was qualifier in Kampala on October 7 was to give opportunities to other equally good players.<\/p>\n<p>The coach invited seven debutants, including two home-based players to augment his squad, as Ghana faces a herculean task of qualifying to the Mundial for the fourth consecutive time.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he wants to build a formidable team for the future; hence the dropping of the two England based players.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cwe know the calibre of Dede and Jordan Ayew already and if we want to build a team for the future, then we need to give other players the chance to also prove themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the duo\u2019s exclusion from the squad was a result of dip in form, he said \u201cno, they are playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coach came under a barrage of criticisms from a section of the Ghanaian populace over his decision to drop the duo because of a feud between Appiah and the father of the Ayew\u2019s over captaincy issues in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>He however debunked the rumours saying, \u201cthis has nothing to do with that because there\u2019s no issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana lies third in Group E with five points behind Egypt 9 and Uganda 7, with Congo lying at the bottom with 1 point after four matches played.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars coach, James Kwesi Appiah, has said that the team is not only about the Ayew\u2019s and that in his bid to build a strong team for the future \u201cthere are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from.\u201d Coach Appiah announced a 26-man squad for the must-win encounter against the Red Devils in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[4558,3,11474],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There are thousands of Ghanaian players I can select from - Coach Appiah - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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