{"id":44429,"date":"2026-07-04T06:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-friends-who-drove-from-ghana-to-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:55:52","slug":"the-friends-who-drove-from-ghana-to-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-friends-who-drove-from-ghana-to-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"The friends who drove from Ghana to the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We hear a lot of stories about the passion which drives football fans to extreme lengths to support their team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But a group of friends from Ghana have taken it to new levels and been behind the wheel all the way from Accra to the World Cup, taking their cars through Europe to the USA and Canada to follow the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC News Africa caught up with them in Boston to talk about the latest chapter of a friendship built on adventure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced: Celestine Karoney and Ian Williams<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed: Alassane Dia<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Edited: Emmanuel James<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/videos\/cvgmz5jnr37o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear a lot of stories about the passion which drives football fans to extreme lengths to support their team. But a group of friends from Ghana have taken it to new levels and been behind the wheel all the way from Accra to the World Cup, taking their cars through Europe to the USA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44431,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429\/revisions\/44431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}