{"id":44368,"date":"2014-09-03T10:55:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=44368"},"modified":"2014-09-03T10:55:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:55:45","slug":"afcon-2015-black-stars-shape-up-for-uganda-match-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/afcon-2015-black-stars-shape-up-for-uganda-match-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2015: Black Stars shape up for Uganda match on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Stars are currently in Kumasi and have begun training \u00a0for their AFCON 2015 qualifer against the Cranes of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The team got to Kumasi on Tuesday morning and went into their first training at the Baba Yara Stadium involving 21 players and the technical team.<\/p>\n<p>The team was joined by Harrison Afful but the Esperance defender did not take part as he was just arriving from his base in Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to go into Wednesday&#8217;s training session with the team but the Black Stars are still missing Abdul Majeed Waris and Andre Ayew who will join on Wednesday after activity on the final day of the European transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Waris was in Turkey to complete a move to Trabzonspor while Ayew was in London awaiting a potential move to the English Premier League. The players asked permission to sort out their club futures.<\/p>\n<p>The team will have two training sessions on Wednesday i.e. an open one in the morning at 9:30 and \u00a0a closed one in the evening and on Thursday, the Black Stars will play a friendly match on Thursday against a side that will be determined by Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The team takes on the Cranes of Uganda on Saturday in the opening round of the AFCON 2015 quailifers before traveling to Lome for another qualifier against Togo on the 10th of September.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Uganda were beaten 2-0 by Niger on Tuesday in a preparation for their match against Ghana on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kamilou Daouda and Issiakou Koudize scored for Niger who themselves are getting ready for their match against Cape Verde this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda are expected in Ghana on Friday before the match on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Stars are currently in Kumasi and have begun training \u00a0for their AFCON 2015 qualifer against the Cranes of Uganda. 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