{"id":239933,"date":"2015-01-06T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/samuel-inkoom-should-have-been-dropped-by-avram-grant-yaw-preko\/"},"modified":"2015-01-06T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T07:36:00","slug":"samuel-inkoom-should-have-been-dropped-by-avram-grant-yaw-preko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/01\/06\/samuel-inkoom-should-have-been-dropped-by-avram-grant-yaw-preko\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Inkoom should have been dropped by Avram Grant: Yaw Preko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/01\/262c240x_mg_q7lxo00nn3_4991164828133_2644504255459.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=2&amp;menu_id=2&amp;id=NTkwMjgy';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\n<p><strong>Former Ghana international winger Yaw Preko has expressed surprised at Avram Grant&#8217;s decision to include USA-based defender Samuel Inkoom in his squad for the 2015 AFCON tournament.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preko, who is an assistant trainer for Ghana U20 side \u2013 Black Satellites, says he is surprised by Inkoom&#8217;s inactivity at club level yet his inclusion in the Ghana squad.<\/p>\n<p>Inkoom, 25, was named in a provisional 31-man squad named by Ghana head coach Grant and has dodged the axe as he has made the cut for a 26-man squad which would be pruned down to 23 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>And, this surprises Preko.<br \/>\u201cSamuel Inkoom&#8217;s inclusion is a bit surprising to me. I don&#8217;t often talk about players, but I don&#8217;t remember the last time Samuel Inkoom played for his club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Preko&#8217;s view has been echoed by a section of the Ghana fans who feel the former Asante Kotoko defender has not been active.<\/p>\n<p>Inkoom&#8217;s whose reported move to Houston Dynamo has fallen through managed just 71 league minutes in the American Major League Soccer since he moved there in September.<\/p>\n<p>DC United played 12 games throughout the period Inkoom joined them, culminating in 1080 minutes but he managed just 71 minutes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;clear:both;\">\n<div style=\"padding:5px;background-color: #eee;\"><b>Comments:<\/b><br \/>This article has <b>0<\/b> comment,  leave your comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t    \t<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Former Ghana&#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-239933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}