{"id":503425,"date":"2026-06-17T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:48:07","slug":"ghanas-partey-denied-canadian-visa-after-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503425\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Partey denied Canadian visa after appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana are prepared to play their World Cup Group L match against Panama without Thomas Partey after the midfielder lost his appeal of Canada&#8217;s decision to deny him entry into the country, according to coach Carlos Queiroz.<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian federal court judge heard the appeal on Tuesday, one day before the match at Toronto Stadium. The judge dismissed the motion later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have our plan settled,&#8221; Queiroz told a press conference before the court&#8217;s decision was released, adding that he had no comments to make about Partey, who faces allegations of rape \u2060and sexual assault in Britain. The Villarreal midfielder has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/0917\/1533932-partey-pleads-not-guilty-to-rape-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denied the charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My business is to play with the cards that I have in front of me&#8230;. When the decision comes, we are ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz spoke highly of his opponents, calling Panama a very organised and experienced team, but the 73-year-old said Ghana have a lot of tools in their kit as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, (Panama) have some weaknesses,&#8221; Queiroz said. &#8220;We need to find them and I believe (we) have the solution to their strengths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got great experience, we&#8217;ve got quality, we&#8217;ve got speed, we&#8217;ve got skill,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I think we can do well in one-on-one situations. We&#8217;re strong and we&#8217;ll showcase our strengths in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana are prepared to play their World Cup Group L match against Panama without Thomas Partey after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-503425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}