{"id":397079,"date":"2017-06-30T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/30\/michael-essiens-wife-italian-club-facing-demotion-to-amateur-league\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T11:10:35","slug":"michael-essiens-wife-italian-club-facing-demotion-to-amateur-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/30\/michael-essiens-wife-italian-club-facing-demotion-to-amateur-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Essien&#8217;s wife Italian club facing demotion to amateur league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"330\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Essien.jpg.pagespeed.ce.h1Nr8SypkI.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Essien\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Italian Lega Pro side Calcio Como risks going bankrupt after their new owner Akosua Puni Essien \u2013 wife of Chelsea Michael Essien \u2013 failed to pay bills.<\/p>\n<p>Puni Essien has found it difficult running the lowly rated club that she bought at a bankruptcy auction in March for \u20ac237,000 and became President.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared all rosy when she acquired the club but her experience could be very short-lived indeed as a deadline passed to register the club with the FIGC (Federation) because the cheque bounced, according to Il Messaggero.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for registering for the Lega Pro 2017-18 season is this Saturday , but without FIGC affiliation, that is not possible<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, Calcio Como would be forced to begin again from the amateur leagues.<\/p>\n<p>New Coach Mark Iuliano, a former Juventus defender, was presented to the fans, but no new players were signed so far this summer and that began to raise questions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Lega Pro side Calcio Como risks going bankrupt after their new owner Akosua Puni Essien \u2013 wife of Chelsea Michael Essien \u2013 failed to pay bills. Puni Essien has found it difficult running the lowly rated club that she bought at a bankruptcy auction in March for \u20ac237,000 and became President. It appeared all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":396548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Essien&#039;s wife Italian club facing demotion to amateur league - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/30\/michael-essiens-wife-italian-club-facing-demotion-to-amateur-league\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Michael Essien&#039;s wife Italian club facing demotion to amateur league - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Italian Lega Pro side Calcio Como risks going bankrupt after their new owner Akosua Puni Essien \u2013 wife of Chelsea Michael Essien \u2013 failed to pay bills. 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