{"id":2887,"date":"2024-02-16T04:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T04:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2024-02-16T04:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T04:37:58","slug":"lets-stop-abusing-players-when-things-go-wrong-kurt-okraku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=2887","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Stop Abusing Players When Things Go Wrong &#8211; Kurt Okraku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The President of the Ghana Football Association, Kurt Okraku, has urged fans to stop abusing players when things go wrong at the Black Stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black Stars faced serious criticism because of their abysmal performance at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d\u2019Ivoire where the team exited at the group stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some players like Mohammed Salisu went as far as asking to fight journalists after the embarrassing draw against Mozambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at the Ghana Football Association\u2019s meet the press in Kumasi, Kurt said, \u201cIf we kill our players when things go bad, we are likely not. That is why I\u2019ve always said in good times and in bad times, let\u2019s stay with our players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet\u2019s leave those decisive but important decisions to the technical team to handle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana missed out on a place in the Round of 16 after finishing third in a group consisting of Cape Verde, Egypt and Mozambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black Stars lost 2-1 to Cape Verde before back to back 2-2 draws against Egypt and Mozambique confirmed Ghana\u2019s elimination from the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black Stars, for the second successive tournament, exited at the group stages without registering a win, extending the country&#8217;s wait for its fifth AFCON title to 42 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: footballghana.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Ghana Football Association, Kurt Okraku, has urged fans to stop abusing players when things go wrong at the Black Stars. The Black Stars faced serious criticism because of their abysmal performance at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d\u2019Ivoire where the team exited at the group stage. Some players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,11],"tags":[873,872,871],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-sports","tag-black-stars","tag-ghana-football-association","tag-kurt-okraku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}