{"id":408399,"date":"2017-08-02T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:26:25","slug":"i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"I joined the MLS to earn good money &#8211; Latif Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday,  2 August 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-08-02<\/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\/70196923.295.jpg\" alt=\"Latif Blessing Tro\" title=\"Latif Blessing Tro\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Latif Blessing<\/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\/08\/1501701985_431_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghana forward Latif Atta Blessing says the opportunity to escape the harsh conditions footballers face in the local league prompted his decision to join Sporting Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Blessing, 20, joined Sporting Kansas City in a two-year deal with an option to extend for one additional year after being crowned the Most Valuable Player award in the Ghana Premier League after scoring 17 goals for Liberty Professionals in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to the nimble-footed forward, the chance to play on good pitches and earn good money made his decision to move to the MLS an easy one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The league in Ghana isn&#8217;t paying good money, they aren&#8217;t treating the players well,&#8221; said Blessing, who is making a guaranteed salary of $74,379 with SKC this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why everyone there wants to go to another professional league, to get something for their future and their family&#8230; My background is very poor, but (in MLS), every month I can send money to my family. I&#8217;m just so happy to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Latif has plundered in three goals in fourteen appearances to help Sporting Kansas City to the summit of the MLS Western Conference table in the Regular season.<\/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\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. Click for more news.<\/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: 4 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 Wednesday, 2 August 2017 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com 2017-08-02 Latif Blessing &#13; Ghana forward Latif Atta Blessing says the opportunity to escape the harsh conditions footballers face in the local league prompted his decision to join Sporting Kansas City. Blessing, 20, joined Sporting Kansas City in a two-year deal with an option to extend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":400235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408399","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>I joined the MLS to earn good money - Latif Blessing - 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\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I joined the MLS to earn good money - Latif Blessing - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Wednesday, 2 August 2017 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com 2017-08-02 Latif Blessing &#013; Ghana forward Latif Atta Blessing says the opportunity to escape the harsh conditions footballers face in the local league prompted his decision to join Sporting Kansas City. Blessing, 20, joined Sporting Kansas City in a two-year deal with an option to extend [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"I joined the MLS to earn good money &#8211; Latif Blessing\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-02T19:26:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":246,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/\",\"name\":\"I joined the MLS to earn good money - Latif Blessing - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-02T19:26:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/02\\\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"I joined the MLS to earn good money - Latif Blessing - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"I joined the MLS to earn good money - Latif Blessing - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Sports News of Wednesday, 2 August 2017 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com 2017-08-02 Latif Blessing &#13; Ghana forward Latif Atta Blessing says the opportunity to escape the harsh conditions footballers face in the local league prompted his decision to join Sporting Kansas City. Blessing, 20, joined Sporting Kansas City in a two-year deal with an option to extend [&hellip;]","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"I joined the MLS to earn good money &#8211; Latif Blessing","datePublished":"2017-08-02T19:26:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/"},"wordCount":246,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/","name":"I joined the MLS to earn good money - Latif Blessing - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2017-08-02T19:26:25+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/02\/i-joined-the-mls-to-earn-good-money-latif-blessing\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}