{"id":16189,"date":"2018-11-22T17:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T17:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=16189"},"modified":"2018-11-22T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T18:01:40","slug":"awcon-2018-believe-black-queens-encouraged-ahead-cameroon-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/awcon-2018-believe-black-queens-encouraged-ahead-cameroon-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"AWCON 2018 : &#8220;We Believe In You&#8221;, Black Queens Encouraged Ahead Of Cameroon Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Black Queens were given strong words of encouragement by Acting Director of the National Sports Authority, Majeed Bawa ahead of their crucial game with Cameroon tomorrow.<\/h2>\n<p>The Queens lost their second game to Mali which has now made the final game with Cameroon very important; a loss and they could say goodbye to the tournament they are aiming to host and win.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yoast-link-suggestion__value\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/awcon-mali-will-tough-hopeful-victory-priscilla-otchere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AWCON: &#8220;Mali Will Be Tough But We Are Hopeful Of Victory&#8221;- Priscilla Okyere<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Queens, the Acting Director said, &#8220;Ghana is behind you. Ghana believes in your abilities and that is why they assembled all of you here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yoast-link-suggestion__value\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/black-queens-coach-urges-ghanaians-support-filling-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Queens Coach Urges Ghanaians To Support Them By Filling The Stadium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned that they should not be discouraged by the loss to Mali and be confident ahead of the clash with the Cameroonians.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Queens will need a convincing win against the Indomitable Lionesses to ensure progress to the next stage with Mali also looking to qualify again.<\/p>\n<p>Kick off for both will be at 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Queens were given strong words of encouragement by Acting Director of the National Sports Authority, Majeed Bawa ahead of their crucial game with Cameroon tomorrow. The Queens lost their second game to Mali which has now made the final game with Cameroon very important; a loss and they could say goodbye to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8272,8417],"tags":[8273,8599,255,3819],"class_list":{"0":"post-16189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awcon-2018","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-awcon-2018","10":"tag-black-queens","11":"tag-ghana","12":"tag-ghana-black-queens"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/awcon-ghana-v-mali_131pmrobvix7l1qdq18shrs3cu.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4d7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16233,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/awcon-2018-black-queens-crash-draw-cameroon\/","url_meta":{"origin":16189,"position":0},"title":"AWCON 2018: Black Queens Crash Out After Draw With Cameroon","author":"Selasi Fiawoyi","date":"November 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Ghana Black Queens are out of the African Women's Cup of Nations after drawing with Cameroon on Friday. 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He was speaking at the press conference ahead of Ghana's all important clash with Cameroon which could decide who goes through from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AWCON 2018&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AWCON 2018","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/category\/awcon-2018\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cameroonian coach Joseph Brian","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-22-at-20.24.38-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C719&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-22-at-20.24.38-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C719&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-22-at-20.24.38-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C719&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-22-at-20.24.38-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C719&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-22-at-20.24.38-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C719&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16297,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/awcon-2018-not-quitting-queens-coach-hayford\/","url_meta":{"origin":16189,"position":4},"title":"AWCON 2018: &#8220;I Am Not Quitting As Queens Coach&#8221;- Hayford","author":"Selasi Fiawoyi","date":"November 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Black Queens coach Bashir Hayford has stated that he has no intentions of quitting his job, saying he does not feel he has done anything wrong. 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