{"id":77047,"date":"2026-06-01T04:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wales-v-ghana-world-cup-miss-still-hurts-says-neco-williams-before-friendly-with-finalists\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:50:27","slug":"wales-v-ghana-world-cup-miss-still-hurts-says-neco-williams-before-friendly-with-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wales-v-ghana-world-cup-miss-still-hurts-says-neco-williams-before-friendly-with-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales v Ghana: &#8216;World Cup miss still hurts&#8217;, says Neco Williams before friendly with finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Strictly speaking, Wales&#8217; next tournament is the Nations League, with top-tier fixtures against Portugal, Denmark and Norway due in the autumn \u2013 and an undoubted test of the side&#8217;s capability under Bellamy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, with the World Cup out of reach, the next real chance of a major stage is the Euros, with games in Cardiff&#8217;s Principality Stadium on offer should Wales qualify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is that prospect that has motivated Bellamy, the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c7v9rjgd48mo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">interest from Burnley <\/a>recently, but who Williams said still has more to show with this squad of players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since he&#8217;s come in, he&#8217;s changed so much within the team,&#8221; the 55-cap defender said. &#8220;But, at the same time, it hasn&#8217;t been very long so the more time we have, the better we&#8217;re going to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re enjoying it, we&#8217;ve got the Nations League to test ourselves against the best teams, and then we have the aim of the next tournament and the Euros.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Two years will fly and picturing walking out at the stadium is unbelievable \u2013 they&#8217;re the moments you want in football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cj6p4r9w17jo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strictly speaking, Wales&#8217; next tournament is the Nations League, with top-tier fixtures against Portugal, Denmark and Norway due in the autumn \u2013 and an undoubted test of the side&#8217;s capability under Bellamy, However, with the World Cup out of reach, the next real chance of a major stage is the Euros, with games in Cardiff&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[1800,9655,7217,8028,7438,4715,312,3658,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77049,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77047\/revisions\/77049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}