{"id":302262,"date":"2025-11-20T01:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302262\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:50:09","slug":"black-stars-are-fully-prepared-for-2026-world-cup-kofi-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302262\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars are fully prepared for 2026 World Cup \u2013 Kofi Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Black-Stars-are-fully-prepared-for-2026-World-Cup-Kofi-Adams-2010175?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/79726935.295.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams\" title=\"Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams\" width=\"295\" height=\"210\" \/> <\/a>Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams has said that the Black Stars are fully prepared for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States of America, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana lost 2-0 to Japan on Friday, November 14, before the 1-0 defeat to South Korea on Tuesday, November 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the team&#8217;s performance in the Kirin Challenge Cup, the minister has affirmed his believe in the Black Stars to perform well at the Mundial in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went there [to previous World Cups] to learn so we have learnt something and we are more than prepared for next year\u2019s Mundial and we will come back with something great.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went there [to previous World Cups] to learn so we have learnt something and we are more than prepared for next year\u2019s Mundial and we will come back with something great,\u201d the Minister of Sports and Recreation said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Black Stars have been placed in Pot 4 ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup group stage draw scheduled for December 5, 2025, at Washington, United States.<\/p>\n<p>Pot 1: Mexico (Group A), Canada (Group B), United States (Group D), Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, France, England, Netherlands, Portugal<\/p>\n<p>Pot 2: Croatia, Morocco, Colombia, Uruguay, Switzerland, Senegal, Japan, Iran, South Korea, Ecuador, Austria, Australia<\/p>\n<p>Pot 3: Norway, Panama, Egypt, Algeria, Scotland, Paraguay, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa<\/p>\n<p>Pot 4: Jordan, Cape Verde, Ghana, Cura\u00e7ao, New Zealand, Haiti, UEFA Play-off #1, UEFA Play-off #2, UEFA Play-off #3, UEFA Play-off #4, Intercontinental Play-off #1, Intercontinental Play-off #2<\/p>\n<p>JE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kofi Adams has said that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-302262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}