{"id":426850,"date":"2011-05-19T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/19\/mensah-confirms-participation-in-peace-match-hails-essien-initiative\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:57:13","slug":"mensah-confirms-participation-in-peace-match-hails-essien-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/mensah-confirms-participation-in-peace-match-hails-essien-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Mensah Confirms Participation In Peace Match, Hails Essien Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"53\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-29644\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/mensah-confirms-participation-in-peace-match-hails-essien-initiative\/john-mensah-10\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29644\" title=\"Mensah confirms participation in peace match, hails Essien initiative\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/John-Mensah.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana captain John Mensah has confirmed his participation in the forthcoming Africa peace charity game scheduled for the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra next Wednesday.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Mensah has confirmed he will play in the Essien charity game<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana captain John Mensah has confirmed his participation in the forthcoming Africa peace charity game scheduled for the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra next Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Essien, who is the African Union (AU) Peace Ambassador, is the brain behind the high-profile game involving African XI and World XI.<\/p>\n<p>Soccer greats to grace the occasion are Chelsea stars, Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou, Emmanuel Adebayor, Ashley Cole, Florent Malouda, among others.<br \/>Speaking to his official site johntherock5.com Mensah said \u201cIt is good to support a worthy cause and I am extremely happy to be part of the Peace match.\u201d<br \/>Mensah added: \u201cto raise fund for charity is always a good idea and I will always give my heart to it.\u201d<br \/>The Black Star captain revealed to johntherock5.com \u201cEssien is a good friend to me so there was no need to re-think about honouring his invitation.\u2019<br \/>The Black Stars Captain is expected to arrive in the country a day before the game with his family to begin their summer holidays while preparing for Ghana\u2019s Nations Cup qualifier next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/mensah-confirms-participation-in-peace-match-hails-essien-initiative\/\" title=\"Mensah Confirms Participation In Peace Match, Hails Essien Initiative\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mensah Confirms Participation In Peace Match, Hails Essien Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. John Mensah has confirmed he will play in the Essien charity game Ghana captain John Mensah has confirmed his participation in the forthcoming Africa peace charity game scheduled for the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra next Wednesday. Michael Essien, who is the African Union (AU) Peace Ambassador, is the brain behind the high-profile game involving African XI and World XI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":426465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mensah Confirms Participation In Peace Match, Hails Essien Initiative - 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\/05\/19\/mensah-confirms-participation-in-peace-match-hails-essien-initiative\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mensah Confirms Participation In Peace Match, Hails Essien Initiative - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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