{"id":378808,"date":"2011-04-12T20:06:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/12\/agyeman-badu-downcast-after-ghana-olympic-exit\/"},"modified":"2011-04-12T20:06:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T20:06:55","slug":"agyeman-badu-downcast-after-ghana-olympic-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/12\/agyeman-badu-downcast-after-ghana-olympic-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Agyeman-badu Downcast After Ghana Olympic Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"52\">\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><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c688cae2badu.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27045\" title=\"Emmanuel Agyeman Badu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c688cae2badu.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Agyeman Badu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang Badu is counting the cost of exiting the 2012 London Olympic Games qualifiers. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Udinese enforcer failed to travel to Sudan for the match due to an injury as the Black Meteors crashed out 2-1 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Badu, who converted the final spot-kick to lift the 2009 Fifa Under-20 World Cup finals in Egypt, is disheartened<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so sad things went that way and for the second time we\u2019re not going to be presented at the Olympic Games. It\u2019s heartbreaking and think we must put it behind us and move on,\u201d Badu told Accra-based Citi FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a great footballing nation like to Ghana not be at such an important sporting event is worrying and very sad.\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>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/agyeman-badu-downcast-after-ghana-olympic-exit\/\" title=\"Agyeman-badu Downcast After Ghana Olympic Exit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agyeman-badu Downcast After Ghana Olympic Exit<\/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-378808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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