{"id":215515,"date":"2025-12-02T21:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bjorkegren-calls-for-bravery-as-black-queens-set-for-england-test\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:57:05","slug":"ghana-bjorkegren-calls-for-bravery-as-black-queens-set-for-england-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bjorkegren-calls-for-bravery-as-black-queens-set-for-england-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Bj\u00f6rkegren Calls for Bravery As Black Queens Set for England Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Black Queens head coach, Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren has called for bravery, belief, and collective hard work as Ghana prepare to face the England Lionesses in Tuesday&#8217;s high-profile international friendly at St Mary&#8217;s Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Speaking at the pre-match press conference, coach Bj\u00f6rkegren reflected on England&#8217;s recent emphatic win over China, a match he said offered valuable lessons for his squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">&#8220;England played great and at the same time I respect China,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020588.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 Queens head coach, Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren has called for bravery, belief, and collective hard work as Ghana prepare to face the England Lionesses in Tuesday&#8217;s high-profile international friendly at St Mary&#8217;s Stadium. Speaking at the pre-match press conference, coach Bj\u00f6rkegren reflected on England&#8217;s recent emphatic win over China, a match he said offered valuable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215516,"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":[258,256,53018,8561,18709,6137,4539,4508,4509,257,8370,7106,254,6596],"class_list":["post-215515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bjorkegren","tag-black","tag-bravery","tag-calls","tag-england","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-queens","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-test"],"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\/215515","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=215515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}