{"id":437949,"date":"2017-11-16T18:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/asante-kotoko-confirms-participation-in-g8-tournament\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:16:30","slug":"asante-kotoko-confirms-participation-in-g8-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/16\/asante-kotoko-confirms-participation-in-g8-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Asante Kotoko confirms participation in G8 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 16 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>footballghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-16<\/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\/82528070.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asante Kotoko Squad Foto\" title=\"Asante Kotoko Squad Foto\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asante Kotoko team<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151057539911396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151057539911396\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510856190_791_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">FA Cup champions Kumasi Asante Kotoko have confirmed their participation in the GHALCA G8 championship next year. <\/p>\n<p>The off-season championship is set to begin on January 6th and ends on 22nd of the same month, before the start of the Ghana Premier League next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Porcupine Warriors were initially reported to opt out of the tournament due to an invitational championship in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>However, the club held a meeting where it took a decision to participate in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The club posted,&#8221;Asante Kotoko confirms participation in the G8 tournament which will kick off from the 6th-22nd of January 2018 in a meeting attended by @thecruggers @JoelHammond_ and Nana Kwame Dankwah,&#8221; confirming their participation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Confirmed!<\/p>\n<p>Asante Kotoko confirms participation in the G8 tournament which will kick off  from the 6th-22nd of January 2018 in a meeting attended by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thecruggers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thecruggers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoelHammond_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoelHammond_<\/a> and Nana Kwame Dankwah.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AKSC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AKSC<\/a> ???????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FxmQMuwt2s\">pic.twitter.com\/FxmQMuwt2s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Asante Kotoko SC (@AsanteKotoko_SC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsanteKotoko_SC\/status\/931155053909544960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<!-- uploaded by: 56 updated by: 56 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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>Sports News of Thursday, 16 November 2017 Source: footballghana.com 2017-11-16 Asante Kotoko team FA Cup champions Kumasi Asante Kotoko have confirmed their participation in the GHALCA G8 championship next year. The off-season championship is set to begin on January 6th and ends on 22nd of the same month, before the start of the Ghana Premier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":398828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asante Kotoko confirms participation in G8 tournament - 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\/16\/asante-kotoko-confirms-participation-in-g8-tournament\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asante Kotoko confirms participation in G8 tournament - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Thursday, 16 November 2017 Source: footballghana.com 2017-11-16 Asante Kotoko team FA Cup champions Kumasi Asante Kotoko have confirmed their participation in the GHALCA G8 championship next year. 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