{"id":1610,"date":"2026-07-29T14:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:01:43","slug":"we-want-to-win-the-wafcon-black-queens-coach-kim-sahara-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe want to win the WAFCON\u201d- Black Queens coach Kim \u2022 Sahara Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Black-Queeens.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\u201cWe want to win the WAFCON\u201d- Black Queens coach Kim \u2022 Sahara Football\" title=\"\u201cWe want to win the WAFCON\u201d- Black Queens coach Kim \u2022 Sahara Football\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>G<strong>hana\u2019s Black Queens head coach, Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren, has outlined the team\u2019s objectives ahead of their 2026 WAFCON opener against Cape Verde.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The team finished third in the last competition held in Morocco and hopes to do one better this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in the pre-game interview, coach Kim outlined the team\u2019s objectives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have three targets: qualify from the group stage, win the quarter-finals to qualify for the World Cup, and go all the way to win the 2026 WAFCON,\u201d the Swedish tactician declared ahead of Ghana\u2019s opening fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f6rkegren\u2019s side have been impressive in the off-season. They have bagged several wins, with their latest one being a comprehensive 4-0 victory over Malawi in a friendly match, which should boost the team ahead of their opening game.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Queens will begin their campaign against tournament debutants Cape Verde on Wednesday, July 29, and later play games against Cameroon and Mali.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Black Queens head coach, Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren, has outlined the team\u2019s objectives ahead of their 2026 WAFCON opener against Cape Verde. The team finished third in the last competition held in Morocco and hopes to do one better this time around. Speaking to reporters in the pre-game interview, coach Kim outlined the team\u2019s objectives&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Black-Queeens.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[378,396,384,2935,1299,383,1300,195],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-black","tag-coach","tag-football","tag-kim","tag-queens","tag-sahara","tag-wafcon","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}