{"id":210453,"date":"2025-10-19T20:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fa-boss-applauds-mtns-2m-support-package-for-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:10:51","slug":"ghana-fa-boss-applauds-mtns-2m-support-package-for-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fa-boss-applauds-mtns-2m-support-package-for-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: FA Boss Applauds MTN&#8217;s $2m Support Package for Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The <em>President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku<\/em>, has commended <em>MTN<\/em> for its timely <em>$2 million sponsorship package<\/em>, which is supporting Ghana&#8217;s national football teams ahead of the <em>2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The sponsorship, announced earlier this year, covers the <strong>Black Stars, Black Queens, Black Satellites, and Black Starlets<\/strong>. According to Okraku, the financial boost has renewed the senior team&#8217;s motivation and belief as they strive to secure a spot at the World Cup in <strong>the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510170252.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>The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku, has commended MTN for its timely $2 million sponsorship package, which is supporting Ghana&#8217;s national football teams ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. The sponsorship, announced earlier this year, covers the Black Stars, Black Queens, Black Satellites, and Black Starlets. According to Okraku, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210454,"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":[258,256,9919,8561,6962,4508,4509,25153,257,7133,254,9435,6096],"class_list":["post-210453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-applauds","tag-black","tag-boss","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mtns","tag-news","tag-package","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-support"],"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\/210453","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=210453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}