{"id":198086,"date":"2025-05-14T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-black-satellites-clash-with-young-pharaohs-more-than-a-quarter-final-desmond-ofei\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:24:58","slug":"ghana-black-satellites-clash-with-young-pharaohs-more-than-a-quarter-final-desmond-ofei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-black-satellites-clash-with-young-pharaohs-more-than-a-quarter-final-desmond-ofei\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Black Satellites Clash With Young Pharaohs More Than a Quarter Final &#8211; Desmond Ofei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">On the eve of a highly anticipated quarter-final clash between Ghana&#8217;s Black Satellites and Egypt&#8217;s U-20 team, Head Coach Desmond Ofei says today&#8217;s clash against Egypt is more than just a quarter final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;This is going to be like a final for us,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;It&#8217;s a qualifier to the World Cup and that means everything. We are not just playing a nation; we are also playing against history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Ghana, a proud footballing nation with a decorated record at the U-20 level, faces an Egyptian side that Ofei&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505140276.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>On the eve of a highly anticipated quarter-final clash between Ghana&#8217;s Black Satellites and Egypt&#8217;s U-20 team, Head Coach Desmond Ofei says today&#8217;s clash against Egypt is more than just a quarter final. &#8220;This is going to be like a final for us,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;It&#8217;s a qualifier to the World Cup and that means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8561,7647,40981,6038,4508,4509,257,51349,12628,8710,26526,254,7720],"class_list":["post-198086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-black","tag-clash","tag-desmond","tag-final","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-ofei","tag-pharaohs","tag-quarter","tag-satellites","tag-south-africa-today","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/198086","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=198086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}