{"id":34720,"date":"2023-06-06T01:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=34720"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:32:12","slug":"2023-afconq-inaki-williams-withdraws-from-black-stars-squad-to-face-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/06\/2023-afconq-inaki-williams-withdraws-from-black-stars-squad-to-face-madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 AFCONQ: Inaki Williams withdraws from Black Stars squad to face Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black Stars forward, Inaki Williams has pulled himself out of the Black Stars squad which will be facing Madagascar in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inaki was forced to make this difficult decision due to an injury to his right knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained on social media why he has excluded himself from the squad for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Twitter, he captioned his post;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince a few weeks I\u2019ve been playing with pain in my right knee. I decided to play until the end of the season, but after having spoken to the medical services, we\u2019ve decided to stop and solve the problem to be 100% for the preseason.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis wasn\u2019t an easy decision to make because I won\u2019t be able to be with my national team, Ghana the next meeting. I want to say that I am fully committed and I will come back with the Black Stars if the coach deems it appropriate next calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you for your support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars forward, Inaki Williams has pulled himself out of the Black Stars squad which will be facing Madagascar in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[1648,6573,8908,11638,192,5475,10137,11294,10256,9833,12085,5349,5350,3954],"class_list":["post-34720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-black","tag-coach","tag-forced","tag-ghana","tag-black-stars","tag-inaki-williams","tag-injury","tag-madagascar","tag-meeting","tag-nations","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34720","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51431,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34720\/revisions\/51431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}