{"id":118144,"date":"2025-09-04T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118144\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:38:19","slug":"five-key-facts-about-the-chad-national-football-team-ahead-of-ghana-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118144\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Key facts about the Chad National football Team ahead of Ghana clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Five-Key-facts-about-the-Chad-National-football-Team-ahead-of-Ghana-clash-1999009?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/87276899.295.jpg\" alt=\"The Chad football national team\" title=\"The Chad football national team\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <\/a>The Chad football national team<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Black Stars of Ghana will take on the Les Sao of Chad in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on Thursday 4, September 2025 at the Stade Olympique Mar\u00e9chal Idriss D\u00e9by Itno, and here are 5 insights into the Chad national team.<\/p>\n<p>1. FIFA RANKING <\/p>\n<p>Les Sao of Chad are currently ranked 176th in the FIFA World Rankings as the sit bottom of Group I in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers with zero points out of the 6 games played.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Essien-Otto-Addo-Kwasi-Appiah-10-Ex-Black-Stars-players-who-are-into-coaching-1999005\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Essien, Otto Addo, Kwasi Appiah: 10 Ex-Black Stars players who are into coaching<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. WORLD CUP QUALIFICATION<\/p>\n<p>Chad National team has never qualified for the global tournament as well as CAF African Cup of Nations. <\/p>\n<p>3. FIFA BAN<\/p>\n<p>From 2021- 2022, Chad football had a setback when FIFA banned them due to government interference with the Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>4. TOP SCORER<\/p>\n<p>Ezechiel N\u2019Douassel is the most famous player and most capped for the Chad national football team. Ezechiel is a striker with 14 goals in 49 appearances for the Les Sao.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Semenyo-playfully-teases-Kudus-over-Spurs-defeat-1998986\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link text<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5. BIGGEST WIN &amp; DEFEAT<\/p>\n<p>The Les Sao on June 29,1976 beat S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Principe by 5-0, making it the biggest win in their history. Their biggest defeat came in their 11-0 defeat to Congo.<\/p>\n<p>ALL\/JE<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, watch videos from Black Stars first training sessions ahead of WC Qualifiers against Chad and Mali<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chad football national team The Black Stars of Ghana will take on the Les Sao of Chad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-118144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}