{"id":6492,"date":"2013-01-21T01:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T01:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/akaminko-takes-no-blame-for-penalty\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T01:14:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T01:14:38","slug":"akaminko-takes-no-blame-for-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/21\/akaminko-takes-no-blame-for-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Akaminko takes no blame for penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars defender, Jerry Akaminko might have caused a late penalty to facilitate a draw for the Democratic Republic of Congo in a Group B opener on Sunday, but the player prefers to call the result a team&#8217;s effort.<\/p>\n<p>Akaminko whose contact with Dieudonne Mbokani caused a penalty for the Leopards to pull parity told GNA Sports after the game in Port Elizabeth that, &#8220;much as I feel bad about that penalty, I did not cause it. It was a team effort through out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The debutant said: &#8220;I cannot criticize the referee for that decision. I feel bad but we have to learn to move on from here. I do not think our path for a place all the way to the finals has been made difficult by this result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this moment, we are looking forward to winning our next two games for a place in the last eight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defender declined to rate his performance, his first at the biannual event that lace Africa&#8217;s best 16 teams on one stage. Ghana is chasing a fifth Nations Cup glory at the competition.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars defender, Jerry Akaminko might have caused a late penalty to facilitate a draw for the Democratic Republic of Congo in a Group B opener on Sunday, but the player prefers to call the result a team&#8217;s effort.Akaminko whose contact with Dieudonne Mbokani caused a penalty for the Leopards to pull parity told GNA Sports after the game in Port Elizabeth that, &#8220;much as I feel bad about that penalty, I did not cause it. It was a team effort through out.&#8221;The debutant said: &#8220;I cannot criticize the referee for that decision. &#8230;<\/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-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}