{"id":432872,"date":"2017-11-01T03:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/01\/polack-dedicates-mtn-fa-cup-win-to-late-equipment-officer\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T03:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T03:30:32","slug":"polack-dedicates-mtn-fa-cup-win-to-late-equipment-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/01\/polack-dedicates-mtn-fa-cup-win-to-late-equipment-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Polack dedicates MTN FA Cup win to late equipment officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21041217.295.jpg\" alt=\"Pollock Asante\" title=\"Pollock Asante\" width=\"295\" height=\"192\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Steve Polack has dedicated the club\u2019s FA Cup triumph to the late Kofi Asare<\/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=150909146990235\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=150909146990235\"><br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1509507032_684_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Kumasi Asante Kotoko coach Steve Polack has dedicated the club\u2019s FA Cup triumph to the late Kofi Asare who died in the car crush that wrecked their season.<\/p>\n<p>Asare, the club\u2019s equipment officer, was the one fatality from the accident in May as Kotoko returned to Kumasi after a league game. Polack, who clinched his first title as coach, says they owed the victory to the deceased officer.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt is my first cup final as a head coach so this would always be close to my heart because you always remember your first. It has been a difficult season but we dedicate this to our friend Asare. This is for you Asare.\u201d Polack also paid tribute to hat trick hero Saddick Adams. \u201cI don\u2019t think he has been himself but [on Sunday] he was,\u201d the Englishman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a better player when he does that and it worked. 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Asare, the club\u2019s equipment officer, was the one fatality from the accident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Polack dedicates MTN FA Cup win to late equipment officer - 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\/11\/01\/polack-dedicates-mtn-fa-cup-win-to-late-equipment-officer\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Polack dedicates MTN FA Cup win to late equipment officer - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"play videoSteve Polack has dedicated the club\u2019s FA Cup triumph to the late Kofi Asare Kumasi Asante Kotoko coach Steve Polack has dedicated the club\u2019s FA Cup triumph to the late Kofi Asare who died in the car crush that wrecked their season. 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