{"id":435949,"date":"2011-06-04T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/04\/ghanacongo-brazzaville-black-stars-in-decisive-win-as-essien-returns\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:26:07","slug":"ghanacongo-brazzaville-black-stars-in-decisive-win-as-essien-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/04\/ghanacongo-brazzaville-black-stars-in-decisive-win-as-essien-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Congo-Brazzaville: Black Stars in Decisive Win As Essien Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.3514354895\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanafa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana Football Association<\/a> (Accra)<\/p>\n<p>4 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has dedicated his sensational debut goal against Congo to teammate Michael Essien.<\/p>\n<p>Essien, who made a return to the national team after a year&#8217;s absence played alongside Agyemang-Badu as Ghana sealed a 3-1 win over Congo in an African Nations Cup qualifier on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Udinese player capped a brilliant individual performance on the day when he chose the perfect way to give Essien something on his return with a spectacular 30 yard effort in the 78th minute of the game.<\/p>\n<p>And Agyemang-Badu was happy to use his moment of magic as an ideal opportunity to welcome back Essien as he ran to the dug-out to embrace the Chelsea player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before the game, I told Essien I was going to score and I wanted that to be for him. I dedicate the goal to Essien,&#8221; Agyemang-Badu said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a great player to have by your side. He supports and gives me confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am really happy to have scored. I have played here Baba Yara Stadium during my time with Asante Kotoko on many occasions and I know the fans would be happy too.&#8221;<\/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>See the original article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106040094.html\" title=\"Ghana\/Congo-Brazzaville: Black Stars in Decisive Win As Essien Returns\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana\/Congo-Brazzaville: Black Stars in Decisive Win As Essien Returns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ghana Football Association (Accra) 4 June 2011 Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has dedicated his sensational debut goal against Congo to teammate Michael Essien. Essien, who made a return to the national team after a year&#8217;s absence played alongside Agyemang-Badu as Ghana sealed a 3-1 win over Congo in an African Nations Cup qualifier on Friday. <\/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-435949","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\/Congo-Brazzaville: Black Stars in Decisive Win As Essien Returns - 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\/06\/04\/ghanacongo-brazzaville-black-stars-in-decisive-win-as-essien-returns\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana\/Congo-Brazzaville: Black Stars in Decisive Win As Essien Returns - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghana Football Association (Accra) 4 June 2011 Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu has dedicated his sensational debut goal against Congo to teammate Michael Essien. 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