{"id":3132,"date":"2021-11-17T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2021-11-17T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:11:49","slug":"anthony-baffoe-urges-ghana-fa-to-use-former-players-to-recruit-foreign-born-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/2021\/11\/17\/anthony-baffoe-urges-ghana-fa-to-use-former-players-to-recruit-foreign-born-ghanaians\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Baffoe urges Ghana FA to use former players to recruit foreign born Ghanaians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professional Football Association of Ghana (PFAG) General Secretary, Anthony Baffoe has called on the Ghana Football Association [GFA] to get in touch with retired and renowned Black Stars players whose duty will be to convince foreign-born Ghanaian players to represent the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A chunk of foreign-born Ghanaian players have rejected invitations to represent Ghana at the national level.<\/p>\n<p>However, Baffoe who was the first foreign-born Ghanaian to represent Ghana\u2019s Black Stars is convinced the right personnel and structures must be used to execute the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a process trying to bring in players who were born abroad like me,&#8221; he told Citi Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t forget that they didn\u2019t grow up here and I have had these discussions with Kurt Okraku.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s important to have ambassadors like Stephen Appiah, Eric Addo in Holland, Hans Sarpei and Otto in Germany and the likes of Razak Pimpong in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSymbols like [Michael] Essien and Asamoah Gyan whose names still resonate in world football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had that discussion and it&#8217;s important to have a focal point in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot convince someone who has lived all his abroad to come and play for Ghana tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not work like that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana FA are talks with Callum Hudson Odoi to represent the West African country despite playing for the English national youth side among other players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Football Association of Ghana (PFAG) General Secretary, Anthony Baffoe has called on the Ghana Football Association [GFA] to get in touch with retired and renowned Black Stars players whose duty will be to convince foreign-born Ghanaian players to represent the country. A chunk of foreign-born Ghanaian players have rejected invitations to represent Ghana at<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a class=\"btn-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/2021\/11\/17\/anthony-baffoe-urges-ghana-fa-to-use-former-players-to-recruit-foreign-born-ghanaians\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-stars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anthony-Baffoe.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3134,"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfag.com.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}