{"id":432997,"date":"2017-11-01T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/01\/gfa-mourns-death-of-former-black-stars-midfielder-yakubu-abubakari\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:00:25","slug":"gfa-mourns-death-of-former-black-stars-midfielder-yakubu-abubakari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/01\/gfa-mourns-death-of-former-black-stars-midfielder-yakubu-abubakari\/","title":{"rendered":"GFA mourns death of former Black Stars midfielder Yakubu Abubakari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/54429121.295.jpg\" alt=\"Yakubu Abubakar Dead\" title=\"Yakubu Abubakar Dead\" width=\"295\" height=\"443\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Yakubu died on Tuesday afternoon at the age of 36<\/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\/1509534025_944_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Ghana Football Association is saddened by the death of former international midfielder Yakubu Abubakari.<\/p>\n<p>The former Ajax Amsterdam and Vitesse Arnhem died on Tuesday afternoon at the age of 36. He is reported to have been under oxygen support at the Tema Government Hospital before he gave up.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the Ghana FA Twitter handle read: &#8221;We\u2019re sad to hear the death of former Ghana, Ajax &amp; Vitesse midfielder Abubakari Yakubu, our thoughts are with his family. may his soul RIP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abubakari was a member of the Black Stars squad that qualified Ghana for their first ever FIFA World Cup in 2006.<\/p>\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>Yakubu died on Tuesday afternoon at the age of 36 The Ghana Football Association is saddened by the death of former international midfielder Yakubu Abubakari. The former Ajax Amsterdam and Vitesse Arnhem died on Tuesday afternoon at the age of 36. He is reported to have been under oxygen support at the Tema Government Hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432997","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>GFA mourns death of former Black Stars midfielder Yakubu Abubakari - 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\/gfa-mourns-death-of-former-black-stars-midfielder-yakubu-abubakari\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"GFA mourns death of former Black Stars midfielder Yakubu Abubakari - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Yakubu died on Tuesday afternoon at the age of 36 The Ghana Football Association is saddened by the death of former international midfielder Yakubu Abubakari. 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