{"id":249298,"date":"2026-11-07T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/ghana-liberia-black-challenge-edge-liberia-1-0-in-final-world-cup-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:00:07","slug":"ghana-liberia-black-challenge-edge-liberia-1-0-in-final-world-cup-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/ghana-liberia-black-challenge-edge-liberia-1-0-in-final-world-cup-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Liberia: Black Challenge Edge Liberia 1-0 in Final World Cup Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Substitute Yahaya Yussif scored the only goal of the game as the national amputee football team, the Black Challenge, defeated their Liberian counterparts 1-0 in an international friendly at the La McDan Park on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The match, which served as the final preparatory test for both sides ahead of the 2026 World Amputee Football Federation (WAFF) World Cup in Mexico, got off to a lively start, with the visitors showing physicality and defensive solidity to contain Ghana&#8217;s attacking threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Six&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060652.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substitute Yahaya Yussif scored the only goal of the game as the national amputee football team, the Black Challenge, defeated their Liberian counterparts 1-0 in an international friendly at the La McDan Park on Wednesday. The match, which served as the final preparatory test for both sides ahead of the 2026 World Amputee Football Federation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249299,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8561,7485,6674,7126,6038,7596,46581,4712,1107,257,254,5093],"class_list":["post-249298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-black","tag-challenge","tag-cup","tag-edge","tag-final","tag-friendly","tag-ghanaliberia","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","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\/249298","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=249298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}