{"id":406521,"date":"2017-07-28T19:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/28\/kotoko-equipment-officer-who-died-during-acccident-buried\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:45:50","slug":"kotoko-equipment-officer-who-died-during-acccident-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/28\/kotoko-equipment-officer-who-died-during-acccident-buried\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotoko equipment officer who died during acccident buried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday, 28 July 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Graphic.com.gh <\/p>\n<p>2017-07-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/83260033.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kofi Asare Kotoko\" title=\"Kofi Asare Kotoko\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Thomas Asare was buried yesterday<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=150106940086186\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=150106940086186\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1501271150_30_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Football bigwigs, volunteer groups and wailing fans of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, gathered at the Hero\u2019s Park at the Baba Yara Stadium yesterday to bid an emotional farewell to the club\u2019s late deputy equipment officer, Thomas Asare.<\/p>\n<p>Professional League Board chairman, Ashford Tettey-Oku, CEO of AshantiGold FC, Kudjoe Fianoo, and a number of fans from rival team, Accra Hearts of Oak, thronged the venue to mourn with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Asare, popularly referred to as Coach by his neighbours at Esreso, a suburb of Kumasi, died at Nkawkaw three weeks ago when the team bus of Kotoko was involved in an accident on its way from Accra after honouring a midweek Premier League game against Inter Allies at the El Wak Stadium. A number of players, as well as the team\u2019s coach, Steve Polack, sustained various degrees of injury in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Asare, 44, a man of many parts was a former driver, dealer in spare parts, mechanic at Suame Magazine, a distributor of Ashfoam products, before settling for the Kotoko job.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana Football Association president, Kwesi Nyantakyi, sent a message of condolence read at the pre-burial service after which the body was sent to Jacobu in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region for an interment.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased left behind a wife, Portia Obeng Asare (Afia Akoto) and seven children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/56523644.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">For more news go to: www.graphic.com.gh<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong><br \/>This article has no comments yet, be the first to comment\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/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>Sports News of Friday, 28 July 2017 Source: Graphic.com.gh 2017-07-28 Thomas Asare was buried yesterday &#13; Football bigwigs, volunteer groups and wailing fans of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, gathered at the Hero\u2019s Park at the Baba Yara Stadium yesterday to bid an emotional farewell to the club\u2019s late deputy equipment officer, Thomas Asare. 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