{"id":27652,"date":"2022-11-25T05:56:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27652"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:29:04","slug":"ghana-will-fight-another-day-in-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/25\/ghana-will-fight-another-day-in-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana will &#8220;fight another day&#8221; in the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The national team&#8217;s &#8220;gutsy performance&#8221; in their World Cup opening against Portugal, which resulted in a 2-3 loss, has been hailed by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black Stars, who are now last in Group H, made tournament history by becoming the first African team to score a goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On November 28, they&#8217;ll play South Korea again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Addo expressed his pride in the entire team in a tweet, despite their defeat by Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They have demonstrated that they have what it takes to compete with any team in the competition, he said, and they live to fight another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gutsy performance by the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GhanaBlackstars?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GhanaBlackstars<\/a> in today\u2019s match against Portugal. Very proud of the entire team. They live to fight another day, &amp; have shown they have what it takes to mix it up against any team in the tournament. Looking forward to the next game against South Korea. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FiDWm5fO4b\">pic.twitter.com\/FiDWm5fO4b<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NAkufoAddo\/status\/1595852907869618177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national team&#8217;s &#8220;gutsy performance&#8221; in their World Cup opening against Portugal, which resulted in a 2-3 loss, has been hailed by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. The Black Stars, who are now last in Group H, made tournament history by becoming the first African team to score a goal. On November 28, they&#8217;ll play South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1,3295],"tags":[4899,13052,6573,192,5475,4521,2416,6690,1975,3805,7669,8552,7185,5350,3954,36,5248,594],"class_list":["post-27652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-world-sport","tag-african","tag-akufo","tag-black","tag-ghana","tag-black-stars","tag-ghanaian","tag-h","tag-korea","tag-portugal","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-qatar","tag-south-korea","tag-twitter","tag-will","tag-world","tag-world-cup","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50668,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652\/revisions\/50668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}