{"id":443340,"date":"2017-12-03T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/stephen-appiah-celebrates-michael-essiens-birthday\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:00:33","slug":"stephen-appiah-celebrates-michael-essiens-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/stephen-appiah-celebrates-michael-essiens-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Appiah celebrates Michael Essien&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Sunday,  3 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>yen.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/43750077.295.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Appiah   Michael Essien\" title=\"Stephen Appiah   Michael Essien\" width=\"295\" height=\"242\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghanaian football legends , Stephen Appiah (Left) and Michael Essien (Right)<\/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=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512331233_170_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Ghana Black Stars team captain, Stephen Appiah, has shared a photo celebrating his fellow former Black Stars player, Michael Essien, on his thirty fifth birthday today. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be safe to say that former Ghana Black Stars midfielder, Michael Essien&#8217;s decision to move to Indonesia to play football has taken him out of the Ghanaian limelight. <\/p>\n<p>This being said, he may be out of the Ghanaian public&#8217;s radar, but his former Black Stars teammates obviously still have him in mind. <\/p>\n<p>On account of his birthday being today, Stephan Appiah, a former Black Stars team captain, has wished him a happy birthday and said he hopes the former Chelsea player get&#8217;s all his heart&#8217;s desires. <\/p>\n<p>At the time of his transfer to Chelsea Football Club in 2005, Michael Essien was the most expensive signing of all time with Chelsea paying 24,4 million Pounds for the midfielder. <\/p>\n<p>This surpassed a transfer fee of 24 million Pounds paid for Ivorian striker, Didier Drogba, paid the season before. 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