{"id":441399,"date":"2017-11-26T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/26\/chelsea-legends-michael-essien-and-ashley-cole-thrill-fans-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2017-11-26T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T19:00:21","slug":"chelsea-legends-michael-essien-and-ashley-cole-thrill-fans-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/26\/chelsea-legends-michael-essien-and-ashley-cole-thrill-fans-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea legends Michael Essien and Ashley Cole thrill fans in New York"},"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\/41722428.295.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Essien Ashley Cole\" title=\"Michael Essien Ashley Cole\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Michael Essien and Ashley Cole gave Chelsea fans in New York a treat<\/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\/1511722821_346_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghanaian superstar Michael Essien joined his former Chelsea teammate Ashley Cole to give fans of the Premier League champions in New York a treat on Saturday when they arrived for a viewing of the Liverpool game with the Premier League trophy in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The former Blues joined supporters on a specially Chelsea-branded bus before transporting to NBC\u2019s South Street Seaport viewing party in Manhattan, posing for plenty of photos along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The pair spoke about what it\u2019s like to play at Anfield and gave their pre-match predictions (both anticipating narrow Chelsea wins) before settling down to enjoy the game among an army of fellow Blues.<\/p>\n<p>While there, they also helped out Chelsea Foundation coaches, putting on sessions for kids, before joining some bigger kids, former Premier League players Robbie Earle and Robbie Mustoe, now NBC pundits for a kickabout where they both showed they can still cut the mustard!<\/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>Michael Essien and Ashley Cole gave Chelsea fans in New York a treat Ghanaian superstar Michael Essien joined his former Chelsea teammate Ashley Cole to give fans of the Premier League champions in New York a treat on Saturday when they arrived for a viewing of the Liverpool game with the Premier League trophy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":441401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441399","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 - 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