{"id":31803,"date":"2026-04-14T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31803"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:52:42","slug":"ghana-appoints-carlos-queiroz-as-head-coach-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghana-appoints-carlos-queiroz-as-head-coach-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana appoints Carlos Queiroz as Head Coach ahead of FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ghana have appointed Carlos Queiroz as Head Coach, ahead of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup in the Americas later this year.<\/div>\n<div>\nQueiroz, who coached Bafana Bafana in the early 2000&#8217;s, will make his fifth consecutive World Cup appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz left his role as coach of Oman last month, after the side failed to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\nHe led Portugal to the round of 16 at the 2010 World Cup.<\/div>\n<div>\nHe later coached Iran for the last three editions of the tournament, where they recorded three wins in 13 matches.<\/div>\n<div>\nGhana was left without a coach, just 72 days before the World Cup kick-off, after parting company with Otto Addo.<\/div>\n<div>\nThis follows friendly defeats against Austria and Germany in March.<\/div>\n<div>\nGhana have been drawn in Group L alongside England, Croatia and Panama.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31804,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-31803","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ghana have appointed Carlos Queiroz as Head Coach","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31805,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31803\/revisions\/31805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}