{"id":506268,"date":"2026-03-06T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:17:10","slug":"wales-to-play-friendly-against-ghana-in-cardiff-before-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506268\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales to play friendly against Ghana in Cardiff before World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales will host African opposition for the first time when taking on Ghana in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Bellamy&#8217;s men will welcome the Black Stars to Cardiff City Stadium on Tuesday, 2 June, with the kick-off time to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ghana have already qualified for this summer&#8217;s World Cup when they will go up against England, Croatia and Panama in the group stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales will hope to join them in north America and face a play-off against Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday, 26 March, with the winners going on to host either Italy or Northern Ireland five days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales will host African opposition for the first time when taking on Ghana in the summer. Craig Bellamy&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-506268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506268","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=506268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}