{"id":234032,"date":"2026-05-22T04:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-gfa-president-inspires-black-starlets-ahead-of-south-africa-clash-tonight\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:51:23","slug":"africa-gfa-president-inspires-black-starlets-ahead-of-south-africa-clash-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-gfa-president-inspires-black-starlets-ahead-of-south-africa-clash-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: GFA President Inspires Black Starlets Ahead of South Africa Clash Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku has urged the Black Starlets to remain confident in their abilities ahead of their crucial final Group D clash against South Africa at the 2026 U17 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The President spoke to the players and technical team via Zoom on Tuesday evening shortly after the team&#8217;s final training session, delivering a passionate message of encouragement and belief ahead of the decisive encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Addressing the players, President Okraku reminded them of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605210653.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>President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku has urged the Black Starlets to remain confident in their abilities ahead of their crucial final Group D clash against South Africa at the 2026 U17 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. The President spoke to the players and technical team via Zoom on Tuesday evening shortly after the team&#8217;s final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234033,"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":[258,256,7019,8561,7647,7795,4509,11032,257,2450,5069,254,12425,17340],"class_list":["post-234032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-black","tag-clash","tag-gfa","tag-ghana-news","tag-inspires","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlets","tag-tonight"],"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\/234032","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=234032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}