{"id":206315,"date":"2025-09-05T06:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/chad-ghana-otto-addo-questions-quality-of-pitch-ahead-of-chad-v-ghana-clash\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:13:48","slug":"chad-ghana-otto-addo-questions-quality-of-pitch-ahead-of-chad-v-ghana-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/chad-ghana-otto-addo-questions-quality-of-pitch-ahead-of-chad-v-ghana-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad\/Ghana: Otto Addo Questions Quality of Pitch Ahead of Chad V Ghana Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Black Stars coach Otto Addo has raised concerns about the quality of the pitch ahead of Ghana&#8217;s World Cup qualifying match against Chad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Speaking to the press, Addo said he was surprised that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) approved the field for such an important game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;I&#8217;m surprised that CAF allowed this pitch for an international match. For the players, it is like playing on concrete,&#8221; he bemoaned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He explained that the artificial turf is not in good condition and could pose&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040531.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 coach Otto Addo has raised concerns about the quality of the pitch ahead of Ghana&#8217;s World Cup qualifying match against Chad. Speaking to the press, Addo said he was surprised that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) approved the field for such an important game. &#8220;I&#8217;m surprised that CAF allowed this pitch for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206316,"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":[8684,258,256,7019,4699,52257,7647,4508,4509,257,41852,11101,7461,5152,254],"class_list":["post-206315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-addo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-chad","tag-chadghana","tag-clash","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-otto","tag-pitch","tag-quality","tag-questions","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/206315","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=206315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}