{"id":25304,"date":"2022-09-08T19:07:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/ghanaian-pastor-prays-on-the-world-cup-trophy-for-the-black-stars-to-win"},"modified":"2022-09-08T19:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T19:25:55","slug":"ghanaian-pastor-prays-on-the-world-cup-trophy-for-the-black-stars-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghanaian-pastor-prays-on-the-world-cup-trophy-for-the-black-stars-to-win","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian pastor prays on the World Cup trophy for the Black Stars to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Following the World Cup trophy&#8217;s arrival in Ghana on Saturday, a Ghanaian clergyman prayed over it. The World Cup trophy arrived in Ghana for a two-day tour as part of FIFA&#8217;s efforts to raise awareness of the upcoming World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, ex-France forward David Trezeguet arrived with the trophy and was greeted by Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif and Ghana Football Association president Kurt Okraku.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a social media video, a pastor who was present for the viewing of the golden gong used the opportunity to pray for the Black Stars to win the trophy and return it to Ghana in December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We pray this time that this cup you will go and return back to Ghana for a good celebration. We prophesy in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen,\u201d prayed the man known as Pastor Sammy.<\/p>\n<p>When we got into the plane, we had a pleasant shock when this good pastor asked to say a few words to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> trophy.<\/p>\n<p>An original Ghana ?? moment. ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BelievingIsMagic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BelievingIsMagic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cocacola_GH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cocacola_GH<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTGGNYPy3I\">pic.twitter.com\/rTGGNYPy3I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gary Al-Smith (@garyalsmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyalsmith\/status\/1566031353812066305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2022<\/a> The Black Stars have been drawn in Group H at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and will face Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. Following the World Cup trophy&#8217;s arrival in Ghana on Saturday, a Ghanaian clergyman prayed over it. The World Cup trophy arrived in Ghana for a two-day tour as part of FIFA&#8217;s efforts to raise awareness of the upcoming World Cup in Qatar. On Saturday, ex-France forward David Trezeguet arrived with the trophy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[5092,5096,5493,429,5911],"class_list":["post-25304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-black-stars","tag-ghana","tag-world-cup"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaian pastor prays on the World Cup trophy for the Black Stars to win - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following the World Cup trophy&#039;s arrival in Ghana on Saturday, a Ghanaian clergyman prayed over it. 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