{"id":191122,"date":"2025-02-11T17:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-stars-in-good-position-for-world-cup-qualification-assistant-coach\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:02:45","slug":"ghana-stars-in-good-position-for-world-cup-qualification-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-stars-in-good-position-for-world-cup-qualification-assistant-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Stars in Good Position for World Cup Qualification &#8211; Assistant Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Black Stars Assistant Coach, Desmond Ofei, is confident that Ghana is well-positioned to secure qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, set to take place in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">His optimism comes despite the team&#8217;s recent failure to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Morocco marking the first time in 20 years that Ghana has missed out on the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">This setback has cast a shadow over Otto Addo&#8217;s tenure as head coach of the four-time AFCON champions,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502110428.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars Assistant Coach, Desmond Ofei, is confident that Ghana is well-positioned to secure qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, set to take place in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. His optimism comes despite the team&#8217;s recent failure to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Morocco marking the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191123,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,5931,7346,6674,4508,4509,6677,257,6941,13369,254,9435,5093],"class_list":["post-191122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assistant","tag-coach","tag-cup","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-good","tag-news","tag-position","tag-qualification","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-world"],"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\/191122","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}