{"id":11201,"date":"2025-01-21T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11201"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:05:08","slug":"black-stars-winger-joseph-paintsil-believes-the-team-has-what-it-takes-to-qualify-for-the-next-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11201","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars winger Joseph Paintsil believes the team has what it takes to qualify for the next World Cup."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GPc-q-laEAA-zt-678f6337f16d8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GPc-q-laEAA-zt-678f6337f16d8.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GPc-q-laEAA-zt-678f6337f16d8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/GPc-q-laEAA-zt-678f6337f16d8-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ghana and LA Galaxy winger Joseph Paintsil has admitted that he is positive about Ghana&#8217;s chances of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After failing to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the senior national team now turn their attention to the Mundial qualifiers which is set to resume in March later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the team&#8217;s recent poor performances, Paintsil&nbsp;highlighted the importance of Ghana\u2019s representation in the World Cup and expressed optimism about securing qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m positive that&nbsp;Black Stars&nbsp;will qualify for the World Cup because it\u2019s something that\u2019s really dear to me, I also want to play in the World Cup. I never had the opportunity to play in the World Cup, so having the opportunity now to qualify and represent myself, my family, and my friends is really something important for me,&#8221; he told GHOne TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo me going to the field, I need to give everything, so that\u2019s the most important thing and every player is going to do the same thing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Black Stars will face Chad and Madagascar in the Matchday five and six games of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana and LA Galaxy winger Joseph Paintsil has admitted that he is positive about Ghana&#8217;s chances of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.&nbsp; After failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11203,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11201\/revisions\/11203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}