{"id":314688,"date":"2016-01-09T17:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/adjei-to-play-for-the-usa-at-the-2016-olympics\/"},"modified":"2016-01-09T17:27:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:27:54","slug":"adjei-to-play-for-the-usa-at-the-2016-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/01\/09\/adjei-to-play-for-the-usa-at-the-2016-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjei to play for the USA at the 2016 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\" readability=\"41.304635761589\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><br \/>\n<a name=\"top\" id=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday,  9 January 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gh\/\">Goal.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"date\" style=\"display:none\">2016-01-09<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"Adjei-to-play-for-the-USA-at-the-2016-Olympics-406425?gallery=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/13254310.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Usa\" title=\"Sam Usa\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image_caption\">Ghana-born USA youth international Sammy Adjei Jr<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghana-born USA youth international Sammy Adjei Jr has set his sights on making the team for the 2016 Olympic Games should the Americans book a place at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Tema, the striker has already represented the USA at under-14 and 18 levels, but made a U-turn in 2012, accepting a call-up to Ghana\u2019s under-20 side ahead of the 2013 Africa Under-20 Championship in Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>However, with Ghana failing to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Brazil, the 22-year-old has left the door open on his international future as he looks forward to fulfilling a long-standing childhood dream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that Ghana didn\u2019t qualify for the upcoming Olympic Games but USA still have a chance [with a playoff game against Colombia in March],\u201d Adjei told Goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father [Sammy Adjei Snr] played for Ghana at the Barcelona 92 Olympics and claimed a bronze medal from it, so it has always been a goal of mine to feature in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy job as a footballer is to continue to improve and be ready to show what I can do whenever I\u2019m called upon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always an honour for a player to represent his country as I have done for both the USA and Ghana at youth levels. The aim is to get another call-up by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having passed through New York Red Bulls\u2019 youth system, Adjei joined Danish second tier side Sydvest 05 in summer 2014 before making a step up to current first division outfit Naestved Boldklub.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\" readability=\"5.33203125\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\" readability=\"6.5625\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gh\/\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/53372278.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of Goal.com &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest football website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis article has no comments yet,<a href=\"artikel.php?ID=406425&amp;comment=0#com\" rel=\"nofollow\"> be the first to comment<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 28 updated by: 28 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sports News of Saturday, 9 January 2016 Source: Goal.com 2016-01-09 Ghana-born USA youth international Sammy Adjei Jr Ghana-born USA youth international Sammy Adjei Jr has set his sights on making the team for the 2016 Olympic Games should the Americans book a place at the tournament. 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