{"id":430453,"date":"2011-05-26T05:40:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T05:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/26\/ghana-accra-to-savour-stars-in-essien-charity-match\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T05:40:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T05:40:39","slug":"ghana-accra-to-savour-stars-in-essien-charity-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/ghana-accra-to-savour-stars-in-essien-charity-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Accra to Savour Stars in Essien Charity Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"62.0229970326\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanaian-chronicle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/ghanachronicle180.jpg\" alt=\"Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)\" title=\"Visit Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Tagoe<\/p>\n<p>25 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>A glitterati of football stars, who have over the years endeared themselves to football fans across the world have stormed the nation&#8217;s capital, Accra, to support a charity match named &#8220;the Michael Essien Peace Match&#8221;, at the Ohene Djan Stadium this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The match is being organised by the Chelsea star, Michael Essien, an African Union Peace Ambassador is between an African XI and World XI sides, and since news broke about the match, it has enjoyed massive publicity, which it owes to its peace objective.<\/p>\n<p>Across the African continent, African Union Day is being marked, and it is a holiday, but in Ghana over the past years, questions have been raised regarding the significance of the day, when viewed against the background that the African Union has nothing to show, and has outlived its usefulness following the throwing of its principles and objectives to the wind by the current breed of African leaders, who lack the courage to evolve programmes aimed at bettering the lot of their people.<\/p>\n<p>However, this year, at least in Ghana, the Michael Essien Charity Peace Match has given the day some significance, as it has drawn many stars, most of whom are not of African descent to Accra to play in that charity match aimed at forcefully drumming home to African leaders and peoples, the need to promote peace at all times.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the stars, who have arrived for the match are doing so because at the centre of it is one of their own -Michael Essien.<\/p>\n<p>A blend of the old and the new African soccer powers, comprising Samuel Eto&#8217;o Fils, Drogba, Stephen Appiah, Kanu Nwankwo, George Weah, Abedi Pele, Roger Milla, Raber Madjer, Kolo Toure, Yaya Toure, Tony Yeboah, Tony Baffoe and Samuel Osei Kuffuor have all confirmed their participation in the peace match.<\/p>\n<p>They would feature for the African side to be captained by Essien, while his teammate, Ashley Cole, will captain the World XI that would feature England stars Sean Wright-Phillips and John Terry.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspurs&#8217; Jermaine Defoe, Paolo Maldini and Florent Malouda among a plethora of Europe&#8217;s current and former footballers, who would grace the occasion, which would raise funds to help push peace initiatives across Africa several notches higher.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105260287.html\" title=\"Ghana: Accra to Savour Stars in Essien Charity Match\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana: Accra to Savour Stars in Essien Charity Match<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> David Tagoe 25 May 2011 A glitterati of football stars, who have over the years endeared themselves to football fans across the world have stormed the nation&#8217;s capital, Accra, to support a charity match named &#8220;the Michael Essien Peace Match&#8221;, at the Ohene Djan Stadium this afternoon. The match is being organised by the Chelsea star, Michael Essien, an African Union Peace Ambassador is between an African XI and World XI sides, and since news broke about the match, it has enjoyed massive publicity, which it owes to its peace objective. <\/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-430453","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>Ghana: Accra to Savour Stars in Essien Charity Match - 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\/26\/ghana-accra-to-savour-stars-in-essien-charity-match\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana: Accra to Savour Stars in Essien Charity Match - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"David Tagoe 25 May 2011 A glitterati of football stars, who have over the years endeared themselves to football fans across the world have stormed the nation&#039;s capital, Accra, to support a charity match named &quot;the Michael Essien Peace Match&quot;, at the Ohene Djan Stadium this afternoon. 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