{"id":31369,"date":"2017-01-02T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31369"},"modified":"2017-01-02T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:50:15","slug":"ghana-names-provisional-football-squad-for-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31369","title":{"rendered":"Ghana names provisional football squad for Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-25917\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/football-icon-league.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" alt=\"football icon league\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/football-icon-league.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/football-icon-league-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Accra: Ghana on Monday named a 26-man provisional football squad for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be held in Gabon later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at a press conference by head coach Avram Grant at the headquarters of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in Accra, reports Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>Austria Lustenau striker Raphael Dwamena and Bernard Terkpetey of German club Schalke 04 made the squad which also includes Andy Yiadom who plays for English second-tier league side Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p>Former Shanghai SIPG striker Asamoah Gyan will join the team which will leave Accra Monday night for a 12-day pre-tournament camping in the United Arab Emirates where the head coach will pick his final 23 players for the three-week competition.<\/p>\n<p>Grant&#8217;s side will be aiming for its fifth continental title since they last won it in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will play in Group D of the tournament alongside Egypt, Mali and Uganda. They will open their campaign against Uganda on January 17 at Port Gentil.<\/p>\n<p>The AFCON tournament, which will have 16 teams to compete, runs from January 14 to February 5 in four Gabonese cities.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana was silver medallists in the 2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea where they were edged out on penalties by West African neighbours Cote d&#8217; Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:&nbsp;<a href=\"football-news\/international\/42958-on-loan-real-youngster-hopeful-of-breaking-into-squad\"><strong>On-loan Real youngster hopeful of breaking into squad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title page-header\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 36px; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0px;\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-25917\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/football-icon-league.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" alt=\"football icon league\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/football-icon-league.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/football-icon-league-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Accra: Ghana on Monday named a 26-man provisional football squad for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be held in Gabon later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at a press conference by head coach Avram Grant at the headquarters of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in Accra, reports Xinhua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[20085,20086,12975,3979,466],"class_list":["post-31369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-avram-grant","tag-football-news","tag-ghana-football-association","tag-indian-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana names provisional football squad for Nations Cup - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31369\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghana names provisional football squad for Nations Cup - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Accra: Ghana on Monday named a 26-man provisional football squad for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be held in Gabon later this month. 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