{"id":13603,"date":"2025-03-28T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=13603"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:09:49","slug":"benjamin-asare-credits-diligence-and-mental-toughness-for-his-impressive-clean-sheet-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=13603","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Asare Credits Diligence and Mental Toughness for His Impressive Clean Sheet Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-24-225805-67e66745a9d55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-24-225805-67e66745a9d55.png 793w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-24-225805-67e66745a9d55-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-24-225805-67e66745a9d55-768x569.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Black Stars goalkeeper, Benjamin Asare, has opened up on the secret behind his clean sheet success.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following his impressive performance in the ongoing 2024\/25 Ghana Premier League season, Asare, who has so far kept 12 clean sheets, was handed a maiden call-up to the senior national team for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Chad and Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 32-year-old kept clean sheets in both games as the Black Stars recorded a 5-0 win against Chad and a 3-0 win against Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As a player, the secret is hard work; training, preparation, and mindset. You have to be aggressive about it because, without these things, you cannot make it as a footballer,&#8221; the former Great Olympics shotstopper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After his impressive performance with the Black Stars, Asare credited the warm reception he received in camp for boosting his confidence, especially from the senior players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As soon as I entered camp, everyone was happy to welcome me, which gave me more motivation to work hard,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSpecial thanks to Jordan Ayew- he motivated me all the time and told me that, despite being a local player, I can do this,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With his performances drawing national attention, Benjamin Asare has proven that local league talent can rise to the highest level and thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asare will hope to retain the post in June when the Black Stars compete in a four nation tournament before taking on Chad and Mali in the Matchday 7 and 8 games of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars goalkeeper, Benjamin Asare, has opened up on the secret behind his clean sheet success.&nbsp; Following his impressive performance in the ongoing 2024\/25 Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13603","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\/13603","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=13603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13605,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13603\/revisions\/13605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}