{"id":421279,"date":"2017-09-23T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/23\/cobbinah-must-improve-off-the-ball-maxwell-konadu\/"},"modified":"2017-09-23T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T00:00:29","slug":"cobbinah-must-improve-off-the-ball-maxwell-konadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/23\/cobbinah-must-improve-off-the-ball-maxwell-konadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobbinah must improve off the ball &#8211; Maxwell Konadu"},"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, 22 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-22<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/94947944.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cobbinah Shape\" title=\"Cobbinah Shape\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Winful Cobbinah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Black Stars B Head Coach Maxwell Konadu has urged mercurial midfielder Winful Cobbinah to be more proactive off the ball if he wants to improve his game.<\/p>\n<p>The 25 year old attacking midfielder has been very instrumental for Ghana in the ongoing WAFU Cup scoring a wonder goal against Mali which sealed Ghana\u2019s place in the semi finals.<\/p>\n<p>Cobbinah was given a free role in Ghana\u2019s semi final win against Niger on Thursday where he put up a decent showing on the day.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Hearts of Oak talisman Cobbinah has come under a lot of pressure for his seeming indifference towards his defensive duties in the team and Maxwell Konadu wants the player to improve that aspect of his game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t play in the main central role where he has been playing all tournament. He is the only player in the team that we gave a free role to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when we lost the ball, there were instances where he had to track down his man and he needs to do better. But being a good midfielder you have to be used to any position you find yourself in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cobbinah is expected to start for the Black Stars when they take on rivals Nigeria in the final of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 31 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, 22 September 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-09-22 Winful Cobbinah Black Stars B Head Coach Maxwell Konadu has urged mercurial midfielder Winful Cobbinah to be more proactive off the ball if he wants to improve his game. The 25 year old attacking midfielder has been very instrumental for Ghana in the ongoing WAFU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cobbinah must improve off the ball - Maxwell Konadu - 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\/09\/23\/cobbinah-must-improve-off-the-ball-maxwell-konadu\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cobbinah must improve off the ball - Maxwell Konadu - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Friday, 22 September 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-09-22 Winful Cobbinah Black Stars B Head Coach Maxwell Konadu has urged mercurial midfielder Winful Cobbinah to be more proactive off the ball if he wants to improve his game. 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