{"id":388309,"date":"2025-11-18T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388309\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:12:20","slug":"black-stars-lose-to-south-korea-in-the-2025-kirin-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388309\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars lose to South Korea in the 2025 Kirin Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"South <\/a>South Korea defeated Black Stars in a friendly game<\/p>\n

The <\/a><\/a>Black Stars<\/a> lost their second game against South Korea 1-0 in the 2025 Kirin Challenge Cup on November 18, 2025.<\/p>\n

The Ghanaian squad began the game on a good note in terms of possession and made some incursions in the early stages of the match.<\/p>\n

South Korea grew into the game, with captain Heung-Min Son providing dangerous passes that troubled the defense, though no goals were scored in the first half.<\/p>\n

Watch <\/a><\/a><\/a>Black Stars<\/a>‘ first training session in Japan<\/p>\n

The Koreans found their breakthrough in the 63rd minute when Tae-Seok Lee\u2019s shot went past goalkeeper Benjamin Asare, who got a touch on the ball but failed to keep it out.<\/p>\n

Hwang Hee-Chan had the opportunity to double the lead via a penalty caused by Caleb Yirenkyi, but Asare rose to the occasion and saved it brilliantly.<\/p>\n

Attempts from Brandon Thomas-Asante and Prince Adu Kwabena to equalize did not materialize, as their efforts were either saved or went wide.<\/p>\n

In the two matches played in the Kirin Cup, the <\/a><\/a>Black Stars<\/a> conceded three goals and failed to score. <\/p>\n

The team was without several key players who were ruled out due to injury concerns.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

SB\/EB<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, watch the feature about Swedru All Blacks’ journey from the Division One to the GPL below<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea defeated Black Stars in a friendly game The Black Stars lost their second game against South…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115572529220781540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}