{"id":280822,"date":"2015-06-16T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/?p=280822"},"modified":"2015-06-16T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:55:00","slug":"bankrupt-hearts-md-ankrah-elite-cup-is-draining-clubs-financially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/06\/16\/bankrupt-hearts-md-ankrah-elite-cup-is-draining-clubs-financially\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankrupt: Hearts MD Ankrah: Elite Cup is draining clubs financially"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.modernghana.com\/images\/content3\/240x_mg_heartsofoaklogi.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/ghanahome\/image_preview.asp?which=2&amp;menu_id=2&amp;id=NjIzNzk1';\" 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>The Managing Director for Accra Hearts of Oak has indicated that the Elite Cup is causing more harm than good to the league clubs in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Elite Cup competition was instituted to keep clubs in good shape, following King Faisal&#8217;s court case against the Ghana Football Association.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of that the Ghana Premier League and the division 1 were put on hold and to enable clubs enjoy some competitive football, the Elite Cup was ushered in without any sponsorship package in place.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Ankrah has expressed the predicament of the clubs as they compete in the Elite Cup without any financial benefit for them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Elite Cup is a way of adding to cost of clubs, without getting the necessary compensation for that. Something more should be done to attract sponsors to help cushion the teams,&#8217; he told Fox fm.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak are one of the sixteen clubs who are still participating in the cup competition.<\/p>\n<p>For more sports news visit allSports.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"CICssVerticalSpacer\"><!----><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">More Sports News \u00bb<\/div>\n<div class=\"CICssVerticalSpacer\"><!----><\/div>\n<p>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;clear:both;margin-bottom:5px\">\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; The Managing Director for Accra Hearts of Oak has indicated that the Elite Cup is causing more harm than good to the league clubs in Ghana.The Elite Cup &#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-280822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280822","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=280822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}