{"id":29260,"date":"2021-05-13T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T11:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=29260"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T11:38:49","slug":"ck-akonnor-responds-mohammed-salisus-comment-playing-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/ck-akonnor-responds-mohammed-salisus-comment-playing-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"CK Akonnor responds to Mohammed Salisu&#8217;s comment on playing for Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ghana Black Stars coach CK Akonnor reacted to Mohammed Salisu&#8217;s comments on not being ready to play for Ghana at the moment.<\/strong><br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nMohammed Salisu stated earlier that he is not ready to play for Ghana at the moment as he is currently focusing on club football and will consider playing for Black Stars later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy that he doing well, we have a lot of players playing in his position and we are satisfied with them,&#8221; CK Akonnor said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What he said; when he is ready he will play for Ghana. We don&#8217;t have much deployment in that position, so we will look at him. When he is ready, he will let us know.&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Salisu who is still struggling to break into Southampton&#8217;s first team is once again not in the 30-man squad for Ghana&#8217;s friendly games against Morocco and Ivory Coast next month.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Black Stars coach CK Akonnor reacted to Mohammed Salisu&#8217;s comments on not being ready to play for Ghana at the moment. Mohammed Salisu stated earlier that he is not ready to play for Ghana at the moment as he is currently focusing on club football and will consider playing for Black Stars later. &#8220;We<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29262,"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":[8417,14057,3347],"tags":[7717,3638,14156],"class_list":{"0":"post-29260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-ghana-football","9":"category-ghplayersabroad","10":"tag-ck-akonnor","11":"tag-ghana-black-stars","12":"tag-mohammed-salisu"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Mohammed-Salisu-Southampton-scaled-e1613080871441-1024x682-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-7BW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29999,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/ck-akonnor-comments-on-mohammed-salisus-absence-from-black-stars-squad\/","url_meta":{"origin":29260,"position":0},"title":"CK Akonnor comments on Mohammed Salisu&#8217;s absence from Black Stars squad","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"August 14, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Ghana Black Stars Head coach CK Akonnor was asked why Mohammed Salisu was not called up again to the Black Stars squad for their upcoming World Cup Qualifiers game against Ethiopia and South Africa. 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