{"id":217271,"date":"2025-12-19T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-hudson-odoi-and-nketiah-will-add-nothing-to-black-stars-derek-boateng\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:38:55","slug":"ghana-hudson-odoi-and-nketiah-will-add-nothing-to-black-stars-derek-boateng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-hudson-odoi-and-nketiah-will-add-nothing-to-black-stars-derek-boateng\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Hudson-Odoi and Nketiah Will Add Nothing to Black Stars &#8211; Derek Boateng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Former Ghana midfielder Derek Boateng has argued that inviting Callum Hudson-Odoi and Eddie Nketiah to the Black Stars will not benefit the team and could rather create problems within the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Boateng shared his views during a discussion with Sporty fm on the ongoing debate about whether players who did not feature in Ghana&#8217;s qualifiers should be invited to the national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">He stated that he did not think it was fair for players who failed to commit during qualification matches to be called&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190065.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>Former Ghana midfielder Derek Boateng has argued that inviting Callum Hudson-Odoi and Eddie Nketiah to the Black Stars will not benefit the team and could rather create problems within the squad. Boateng shared his views during a discussion with Sporty fm on the ongoing debate about whether players who did not feature in Ghana&#8217;s qualifiers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217272,"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":[8272,258,256,8561,53173,53172,4508,4509,53170,257,53171,254,9435],"class_list":["post-217271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-add","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-black","tag-boateng","tag-derek","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hudsonodoi","tag-news","tag-nketiah","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars"],"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\/217271","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=217271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}