{"id":47365,"date":"2023-11-17T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:38:41","slug":"keita-targets-world-cup-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification","title":{"rendered":"Keita Targets World Cup Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Paynesville City- Liberia national team head coach, Ansu Keita says he\u2019s target is to ensure Lone Star finished in the play-off slot of the 2026 FIFA World Cup ahead of the upcoming qualifier against Malawi at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex.Liberia is placed in Group H alongside Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea, Malawi and Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Keita who disclosed that he was never given a mandate by the Liberia Football Association to qualify the team to the worldcup, said the Lone Star would not be a mere participate in the qualifiers but a team ready to defend the national colors.<\/p>\n<p>Said Keita, \u201cThere is no coach in this world that doesn\u2019t have an objective, that doesn\u2019t have aim of achieving. The world Cup qualifier, our aim is to play the world cup qualifier game by game but if we cannot finished first from the group I think we will finished best second to go for play-off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that is our aim, so that definitely tells you that we are not in this qualifier to joke. We are here to defend the color of this nation.\u201d Keita who has never won a game for the senior national team of Liberia told the media.Since being appointed Lone Star head coach, he is yet to secure a win for Liberia. One notable disappointing result, was the 2-1 home defeat against 2-1 South Africa which could have qualified Liberia for the 2023 AFCON showpiece in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Keita indicated that from a tactical perspective despite the poor run of results, his side has made progress in their past games.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that his side will displays their attack prowess in Friday\u2019s match.<\/p>\n<p>The Lone Star head coach, who made an ambitious statement in the presser, said his players were excited and ready to go for the win against visitors on Friday, November 17, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the four games, we know our team, how to pair our players, how to get our players ready. We know we have a task to perform tomorrow. With the effort, the mentality, we are going to win, \u201c he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\">Liberia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. Paynesville City- Liberia national team head coach, Ansu Keita says he\u2019s target is to ensure Lone Star finished in the play-off slot of the 2026 FIFA World Cup ahead of the upcoming qualifier against Malawi at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex.Liberia is placed in Group H alongside Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea, Malawi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":47364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-47365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-liberia","tag-liberia"],"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>Keita Targets World Cup Qualification - Liberia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paynesville City- Liberia national team head coach, Ansu Keita says he\u2019s target is to ensure Lone Star finished in the p ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keita Targets World Cup Qualification\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paynesville City- Liberia national team head coach, Ansu Keita says he\u2019s target is to ensure Lone Star finished in the p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Liberia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-17T15:58:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-17T16:38:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2023\/11\/sm_1700226418.781149.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Keita Targets World Cup Qualification\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-17T15:58:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-17T16:38:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification\"},\"wordCount\":367,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2023\/11\/sm_1700226418.781149.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Liberia\",\"Liberia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/keita-targets-world-cup-qualification\",\"name\":\"Keita Targets World Cup Qualification - 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