{"id":290126,"date":"2011-03-05T06:14:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T06:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/05\/former-gfa-boss-wants-essien-axed-from-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T06:14:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T06:14:03","slug":"former-gfa-boss-wants-essien-axed-from-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/05\/former-gfa-boss-wants-essien-axed-from-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gfa Boss Wants Essien Axed From Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"67\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/08f3b97biencaptain11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24525\" title=\"Michael Essien\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/08f3b97biencaptain11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nyaho Tamakloe wants Michael Essien sacked from Ghana national team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Former Ghana FA chairman Nyaho Tamakloe is calling for the expulsion of Chelsea ace Michael Essien from the national team claiming the Black Stars are better without him. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essien suffered massive backlash after requesting to prolong his return to the international duty last month.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports claimed the midfielder would re-join the World Cup quarter-finalists for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at Congo, Brazzaville on 26 March and a friendly against England three days later.<\/p>\n<p>But Tamakloe believes the current administrators of the sport should call off the bluff of the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>He told the state-owned Graphic Sports: \u201cNo one is indispensable in any field of endeavour, including football. We must be courageous to call the bluff of those who seek to hold us to ransom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d[Michael] Essien, in particular, has shown little commitment to the cause of the Black Stars. It is high time we forgot about him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAfter all, it is when someone leaves that new talents emerge-as it happened in the case of Mohammed Polo when he bounced onto the scene as a small boy in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt was the exposure that Ghana gave him as an Under-17 in 1999 that has ultimately yielded a career in Europe. If he is unwilling to reciprocate the gesture, or believes he has finished paying his due, let\u2019s leave him alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/08f3b97biencaptain11-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/03\/former-gfa-boss-wants-essien-axed-from-black-stars\/\" title=\"Former Gfa Boss Wants Essien Axed From Black Stars\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former Gfa Boss Wants Essien Axed From Black Stars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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