{"id":439468,"date":"2017-11-21T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/21\/youre-speaking-to-a-ghost-tony-yeboah-laughs-off-death-reports\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:30:29","slug":"youre-speaking-to-a-ghost-tony-yeboah-laughs-off-death-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/21\/youre-speaking-to-a-ghost-tony-yeboah-laughs-off-death-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You\u2019re speaking to a ghost&#8217; \u2013 Tony Yeboah laughs off death reports"},"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\/41118265.295.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Yeboah3\" title=\"Tony Yeboah3\" width=\"295\" height=\"188\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Black Stars striker, Tony Yeboah<\/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=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1511263829_235_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Black Stars and Leeds United striker Tony Yeboah has laughed off news reports suggesting he had passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Reports began circulating on social media Monday evening suggesting the former Eintracht Frankfurt forward had died in Maryland in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to Citi Sports, Yeboah said, laughing: \u201cI\u2019m not dead. If I were dead, then you\u2019re speaking to a ghost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has to stop. It wasn\u2019t long ago I heard similar reports about Abedi Pele. I\u2019ve not been sick so I was a little surprised to hear that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I believe when this happens, it even gives you long life. I just arrived in Kumasi from Accra not less long ago so I\u2019m alive and healthy,\u201d the 51-year old concluded.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time popular figures have been reported dead by dodgy websites looking for clicks with the likes of former president John Agyekum Kuffour, Otumfour Osei Tutu II, Abedi Pele all reported dead in the past while still alive.<\/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>Former Black Stars striker, Tony Yeboah Former Black Stars and Leeds United striker Tony Yeboah has laughed off news reports suggesting he had passed away. Reports began circulating on social media Monday evening suggesting the former Eintracht Frankfurt forward had died in Maryland in the United States. But speaking to Citi Sports, Yeboah said, laughing: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":439461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439468","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>&#039;You\u2019re speaking to a ghost&#039; \u2013 Tony Yeboah laughs off death reports - 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\/21\/youre-speaking-to-a-ghost-tony-yeboah-laughs-off-death-reports\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;You\u2019re speaking to a ghost&#039; \u2013 Tony Yeboah laughs off death reports - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former Black Stars striker, Tony Yeboah Former Black Stars and Leeds United striker Tony Yeboah has laughed off news reports suggesting he had passed away. 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