{"id":11485,"date":"2025-01-25T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11485"},"modified":"2025-01-25T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T15:46:33","slug":"appiah-reveals-motivational-tactics-that-helped-sudan-qualify-for-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11485","title":{"rendered":"Appiah Reveals Motivational Tactics That Helped Sudan Qualify for AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/KWESI-APPIAH-AFTER-GHANA-WIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/KWESI-APPIAH-AFTER-GHANA-WIN.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/KWESI-APPIAH-AFTER-GHANA-WIN-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/KWESI-APPIAH-AFTER-GHANA-WIN-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kwesi Appiah has shared how he motivated the Sudan national football team to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) despite the challenges posed by civil unrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under his leadership, Sudan overcame significant adversity, including playing all their qualifiers away from home due to the ongoing civil war, to secure a historic spot in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appiah, who captained Ghana and coached the Black Stars at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, revealed the emotional toll the conflict took on the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a really difficult situation. Sometimes, while we were in camp, players would lose family members, and we all had to console them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the hardships, Appiah motivated his players by reminding them they had the power to bring joy to Sudanese people suffering from the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI told them to put their struggles behind them, fight on, and represent their country with pride,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudan now looks ahead to the AFCON in Morocco, ready to make an impact under Appiah\u2019s inspiring leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwesi Appiah has shared how he motivated the Sudan national football team to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) despite the challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11485","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\/11485","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=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11487,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions\/11487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}