{"id":37968,"date":"2026-06-24T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37968"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:10:40","slug":"ghana-traditional-doctor-releases-kane-from-spell","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghana-traditional-doctor-releases-kane-from-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana traditional doctor \u2018releases\u2019 Kane from spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ghanaian traditional doctor says he has \u201creleased\u201d England captain Harry Kane from his spell after the striker failed to find the net in\u00a0Tuesday\u2019s goalless draw at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Kwaku Bonsam, a self-described spiritualist, had said before England\u2019s Group L clash with Ghana that he would cast a spell to stop Kane from scoring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I am going to release Harry Kane so that, his next match, he can score. Harry, I will come and visit you. Don\u2019t be offended. We are friends,\u201d Bonsam said in a video posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Kane scored twice in England\u2019s 4-2 victory over Croatia in their World Cup opener, but against Ghana the Bayern Munich striker blazed his best chance over the bar from close range in stoppage time, denying England a victory that would have secured their place in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was not dwelling on Tuesday\u2019s late miss, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was waiting for an opportunity like that to fall my way,\u201d he said. \u201cIt did and I just couldn\u2019t quite get over the ball. But I\u2019ve been a striker long enough to know they don\u2019t always go in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21798,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-37968","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kane scored twice in England\u2019s 4-2 victory over Croatia in their World Cup opener.","published_date":"","news_description":"Kane scored twice in England\u2019s 4-2 victory over Croatia in their World Cup opener.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37968","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37970,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37968\/revisions\/37970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}