{"id":85685,"date":"2013-05-23T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T09:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/05\/medeama-chief-admits-exit-of-coach-bashir-hayford-has-affected-team\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T09:14:47","slug":"medeama-chief-admits-exit-of-coach-bashir-hayford-has-affected-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/05\/23\/medeama-chief-admits-exit-of-coach-bashir-hayford-has-affected-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Medeama Chief Admits Exit Of Coach Bashir Hayford Has Affected Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span class=\"small-txt c15\">Posted On Thursday, 23rd May 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"58\">\n<div id=\"attachment_220643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c17\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-220643\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2b83Bashir-Hayford.jpg\" alt=\"Bashir Hayford quit Medeama in January \" width=\"393\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bashir Hayford quit Medeama in January<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Medeama chief Albert Commey has admitted the departure of coach Bashir Hayford has affected the team in the second half of the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hayford shockingly quit the club in January after guiding them to the summit of the Ghana Premier League table at the end of the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of the ex-Kotoko trainer left a cracking hole at the club, prompting \u00a0officials to promote assistant Evans Adotey to take temporal charge of the team till the end of the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Mauves and Yellows have been toppled from the top of the table with three games to spare and their Executive vice president has attributed the situation to the departure of Hayford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t say his departure has not affected us. He had been with the team for close to seven years,\u201d Commey said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Kessben FC right through to Medeama and so knew the ins-and-outs of the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so naturally when he left there was a gap and that I believe it has affected us a bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut his assistant (Adotey) had been with him all through and so he\u2019s not done badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medeama are still in with a chance to win the double as they take on Hearts in the semi-finals of the Ghana MTN FA Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Thursday, 23rd May 2013 Bashir Hayford quit Medeama in January Medeama chief Albert Commey has admitted the departure of coach Bashir Hayford has affected the team in the second half of the season. Hayford shockingly quit the club in January after guiding them to the summit of the Ghana Premier League table at the end of the first round. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85685","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=85685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}