{"id":445211,"date":"2017-12-09T02:41:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/09\/nii-lante-vanderpuje-picks-boxing-ahead-of-football\/"},"modified":"2017-12-09T02:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:41:10","slug":"nii-lante-vanderpuje-picks-boxing-ahead-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/09\/nii-lante-vanderpuje-picks-boxing-ahead-of-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Nii Lante Vanderpuje picks boxing ahead of football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday,  9 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanacrusader.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-09<\/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\/27870834.295.jpg\" alt=\"Lante Boxing\" title=\"Lante Boxing\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nii Lante Vanderpuije<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512787270_924_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former Youth and Sports minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuje, has intimated that he will pick boxing as his priority as against football.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MP for Odododiodioo Constituency boxing is the game he likes adding that he chose boxing because of the way football being run currently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoxing is my priority, I would love to be part of boxing,\u201d he said on Football Legend on GH One.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cOur football is too much of wahala. 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