{"id":327595,"date":"2011-03-21T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T18:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/ek-afranie-claims-hearts-kotoko-quality-poor\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T18:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T18:24:13","slug":"ek-afranie-claims-hearts-kotoko-quality-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/ek-afranie-claims-hearts-kotoko-quality-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ek Afranie Claims Hearts-kotoko Quality Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"56\">\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<p><strong>By Patrick Akoto<\/strong><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Emmanuel-Afranie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25520\" title=\"Emmanuel Afranie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/4709a995nie-300x274.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Afranie is not impressed with the quality play by Hearts and Kotoko<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Veteran Ghanaian coach Emmanuel Kwesi Afranie is unconvinced with the performance of giants Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko insisting the quality of the game has deteriorated in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two biggest clubs played-out a sell-out game at the Accra Sports stadium on Sunday in the Ghana Premier League derby.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko stunned their perennial rivals 0-2 on goals from Ivorian import Ahmed Toure and captain Daniel Nii Adjei<\/p>\n<p>But Afranie who has previously coached both clubs claims their performance was not good enough to market the game in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKotoko won and that what matters in football but honestly the quality of the game itself was nothing to write home about. In my opinion it wasn\u2019t a game that can really sell the local league to the rest of Africa and the world,\u201d Afranie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatches involving the two team have always been difficult but from what I saw at the stadium, there are still question marks about the level of depth and quality on the local league especially if the two biggest clubs in the country play like this.\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\/4709a995nie-300x274.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/03\/ek-afranie-claims-hearts-kotoko-quality-poor\/\" title=\"Ek Afranie Claims Hearts-kotoko Quality Poor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ek Afranie Claims Hearts-kotoko Quality Poor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. By Patrick Akoto Emmanuel Afranie is not impressed with the quality play by Hearts and Kotoko Veteran Ghanaian coach Emmanuel Kwesi Afranie is unconvinced with the performance of giants Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko insisting the quality of the game has deteriorated in the country<\/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-327595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ek Afranie Claims Hearts-kotoko Quality Poor - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/ek-afranie-claims-hearts-kotoko-quality-poor\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ek Afranie Claims Hearts-kotoko Quality Poor - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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