{"id":184205,"date":"2024-11-08T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/nigeria-angola-partey-out-of-ghanas-black-stars-squad-to-face-angola-niger-republic\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:55:38","slug":"nigeria-angola-partey-out-of-ghanas-black-stars-squad-to-face-angola-niger-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/nigeria-angola-partey-out-of-ghanas-black-stars-squad-to-face-angola-niger-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Angola: Partey Out of Ghana&#8217;s Black Stars Squad to Face Angola, Niger Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Arsenal midfield star Thomas Partey has been dropped from Ghana&#8217;s Black Stars&#8217; squad for their crucial Group F AFCON 2025 qualifiers against Angola and Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Head Coach Otto Addo confirmed Partey&#8217;s exclusion, revealing that his choice was influenced by private conversations aimed at protecting the player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Addo, while addressing the media, emphasised his commitment to maintaining confidentiality regarding specific details of the discussions but provided insight into the factors guiding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411080270.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal midfield star Thomas Partey has been dropped from Ghana&#8217;s Black Stars&#8217; squad for their crucial Group F AFCON 2025 qualifiers against Angola and Niger Republic. Head Coach Otto Addo confirmed Partey&#8217;s exclusion, revealing that his choice was influenced by private conversations aimed at protecting the player. Addo, while addressing the media, emphasised his commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,8561,7127,8226,257,404,27860,22059,5935,254,8984,9435],"class_list":["post-184205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-black","tag-face","tag-ghanas","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeriaangola","tag-partey","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-stars"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}