{"id":223345,"date":"2026-02-10T00:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gfa-hires-5-to-strengthen-black-stars-technical-team-ahead-of-2026-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:41:16","slug":"ghana-gfa-hires-5-to-strengthen-black-stars-technical-team-ahead-of-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gfa-hires-5-to-strengthen-black-stars-technical-team-ahead-of-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GFA Hires 5 to Strengthen Black Stars Technical Team Ahead of 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Ghana football association (GFA), in consultation with key stakeholders, has moved to significantly bolster the Black Stars&#8217; technical setup with the appointment of five experienced professionals ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in north america.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">the strategic additions are aimed at enhancing the team&#8217;s competitiveness and ensuring a well-balanced technical structure as Ghana prepares for the global showpiece to be hosted by canada, mexico, and the united states of america.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"84\">french tactician,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602090372.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 Ghana football association (GFA), in consultation with key stakeholders, has moved to significantly bolster the Black Stars&#8217; technical setup with the appointment of five experienced professionals ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in north america. the strategic additions are aimed at enhancing the team&#8217;s competitiveness and ensuring a well-balanced technical structure as Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223346,"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":[258,256,7019,8561,6674,7795,4508,4509,11858,257,254,9435,6433,7142,7233,5093],"class_list":["post-223345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-black","tag-cup","tag-gfa","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hires","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-strengthen","tag-team","tag-technical","tag-world"],"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\/223345","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=223345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}