{"id":34991,"date":"2026-05-20T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34991"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:23:32","slug":"ghana-preparations-begin-after-month-of-travel-study-for-new-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghana-preparations-begin-after-month-of-travel-study-for-new-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana preparations begin after month of travel, study for new coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\">\n<div>Ghana will begin their World Cup preparations in Wales this week at the end of a month-long odyssey for coach Carlos \u200bQueiroz after his belated appointment to take the team to \u200cthe tournament in Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>\nQueiroz, who will manage at his fifth straight World Cup, took over in April and has spent the last \u200bmonth visiting players at their clubs, watching potential candidates \u200bfor the final 26-man squad and trying to learn as \u2060much as he can about the side.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He and staff members \u200bhave travelled to 12 cities, watched 14 matches and studied the form \u200bof 55 Ghanaian players by watching videos of more than 200 matches.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 73-year-old, who has long had a reputation for meticulous preparation, has had little time \u200bto get to know his players but will begin to work \u200bwith the first batch who report to camp this week.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe have to put \u200cthe \u2060right preparation in place training, diet, nutrition, physios, fitness and the details of set pieces,\u201d Queiroz said in an interview.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to say, \u2018I want to win the World Cup,\u2019 just \u200blike many people \u200bwant to buy \u2060a private jet,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you have to be ready to pay the price to achieve \u200bthose dreams.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ghana will be in Wales for 12 days \u200band play \u2060the hosts in a friendly in Cardiff on June 2 after which they leave for the finals, where they face Panama, England and \u2060Croatia \u200bin Group L.<\/div>\n<div>\nA Ghana team made up \u200bof home-based and under-23 players are playing against World Cup co-hosts Mexico in Puebla \u200bon Friday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22848,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-34991","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ghana will be in Wales for 12 days \u200band play \u2060the hosts in a friendly in Cardiff on June 2.","published_date":"","news_description":"Ghana will be in Wales for 12 days \u200band play \u2060the hosts in a friendly in Cardiff on June 2.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34991","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\/34991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34992,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34991\/revisions\/34992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}