{"id":616277,"date":"2026-06-02T02:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616277\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:19:13","slug":"thomas-partey-ghana-boss-carlos-queiroz-has-no-qualms-over-midfielders-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616277\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Partey: Ghana boss Carlos Queiroz has no qualms over midfielder&#8217;s selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Partey has trained as part of a Ghana side that will play for the first time under Queiroz, who was named Black Stars boss in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester City attacker Antoine Semenyo joined up with his international team-mates over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ghana will face England in Group L at the World Cup, with the 2010 quarter-finalists opening their campaign against Panama on 17 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Queiroz, a former Portugal and Real Madrid manager as well as assistant to Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, said he was excited about the prospect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you talk about football in Ghana, it is in the blood, it is everything,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And the talent is here so it is an explosive combination to succeed, which was the first and most important attraction to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re ready to take off and start to fly straight to the World Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Partey has trained as part of a Ghana side that will play for the first time under Queiroz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}