{"id":427058,"date":"2017-10-10T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/kp-boateng-kicked-out-of-fifa-puskas-award-race\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T00:00:26","slug":"kp-boateng-kicked-out-of-fifa-puskas-award-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/kp-boateng-kicked-out-of-fifa-puskas-award-race\/","title":{"rendered":"KP Boateng kicked out of FIFA Puskas award race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday,  9 October 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Goal.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-10-09<\/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\/96693076.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Prince Boateng Nouri\" title=\"Kevin Prince Boateng Nouri\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The Ghana international could not make the final shortlist announced on Monday<\/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=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507593626_855_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghana&#8217;s Kevin-Prince Boateng has failed to make the final cut for the Fifa Puskas Award.<\/p>\n<p>The Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder was among the original shortlist of 10 but the downsized three announced by the world football governing body on Monday did not have the attacker&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>The three, from which the eventual winner will be selected, were decided by votes.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal and France striker Olivier Giroud, South Africa and Baroka FC goalkeeper Oscarine Masuluke and Venezuelan women U-17 striker Deyna Castellanos are the lucky three.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the award, which seeks to honour the scorer of the best goal of the 2016-17 campaign, will be announced at the London Palladium on October 23.<\/p>\n<p>Playing for Spanish club Las Palmas against Villarreal last season, Boateng finished off a neat play build-up with a sublime effort at Estadio de la Ceramica.<\/p>\n<p>Tana Dominguez back-flipped a ball into the box and the German-born made no mistake with his attempt, acrobatically hitting a shot on the volley to give the Yellows a first half lead.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, however, could not fetch UD the desired points as the home side equalised and registered the winner after recess.<\/p>\n<p>The former AC Milan enforcer is the third Ghanaian to have been nominated for the Puskas Award after Michael Essien and Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu in 2009 and 2012 respectively.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/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 Monday, 9 October 2017 Source: Goal.com 2017-10-09 The Ghana international could not make the final shortlist announced on Monday &#13; Ghana&#8217;s Kevin-Prince Boateng has failed to make the final cut for the Fifa Puskas Award. 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