{"id":57968,"date":"2022-01-22T18:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=57968"},"modified":"2022-01-22T17:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:26:59","slug":"afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: Ghana FA fires coach, Rajevac over abysmal performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Following Ghana\u2019s unimpressive performance in the ongoing African Cup of Nations, (AFCON), the country\u2019s Sports Ministry in an emergency meeting yesterday instructed the Ghana Football Association to sack its Serbian tactician, Milovan Rajevac, African Sports Today reported.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the reluctance of the FA to fire Rajevac, the Ministry seems to have won the tussle on the future of the Serbian.<\/p>\n<p>Rajevac in his first spell with the Black Stars led Ghana to the finals of the 2010 AFCON and the Quarter finals of the 2010 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>His second spell did not go as expected as Ghana exited the 2021 AFCON without a win, first of its kind in the history of the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the Ghana Football Association is expected to release a statement on the shocking development soon.<\/p>\n<p>Details\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Following Ghana\u2019s unimpressive performance in the ongoing African Cup of Nations, (AFCON), the country\u2019s Sports Ministry in an emergency meeting yesterday instructed the Ghana Football Association to sack its Serbian tactician, Milovan Rajevac, African Sports Today reported. Despite the reluctance of the FA to fire Rajevac, the Ministry seems to have won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[5907,1570,2140,6499,254],"class_list":["post-57968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-afcon-2021","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-ghana-fa","tag-nigeria"],"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>AFCON 2021: Ghana FA fires coach, Rajevac over abysmal performance - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following Ghana\u2019s unimpressive performance in the ongoing African Cup of Nations, (AFCON), the country\u2019s Sports Ministry ...\" \/>\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\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFCON 2021: Ghana FA fires coach, Rajevac over abysmal performance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following Ghana\u2019s unimpressive performance in the ongoing African Cup of Nations, (AFCON), the country\u2019s Sports Ministry ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-22T17:49:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ec303accbf6.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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"AFCON 2021: Ghana FA fires coach, Rajevac over abysmal performance\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-22T17:49:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance\"},\"wordCount\":155,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ec303accbf6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AFCON 2021\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Ghana FA\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-ghana-fa-fires-coach-rajevac-over-abysmal-performance\",\"name\":\"AFCON 2021: Ghana FA fires coach, Rajevac over abysmal performance - 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