{"id":445370,"date":"2017-12-09T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/09\/football-in-ghana-has-declined-joe-addo\/"},"modified":"2017-12-09T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T17:11:10","slug":"football-in-ghana-has-declined-joe-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/09\/football-in-ghana-has-declined-joe-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Football in Ghana has declined &#8211; Joe Addo"},"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\/12066150.295.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Addo Grant\" title=\"Joe Addo Grant\" width=\"295\" height=\"227\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Black Stars defender, Joe Addo<\/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\/1512839470_174_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Black Stars defender, Joe Addo has emphatically stated that football in the country has not improved.<\/p>\n<p>He believes if the GFA are able to implement decisions taken at the Cape Coast summit will do a lot of good to our football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt hasn\u2019t changed.It is deteriorating. I am hoping that with these new schemes that the FA is trying to put them would change our game. I grew up from the colts era and graduated from the colts to the under-20, Academicals, Meteors and then into the Black Stars and the most progression maybe for us I think if we go back to that, it will help us all.\u201d Joe Addo told Football Legends Night Show on GHOne TV on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Addo was part of the Ghana squad that finished fourth at the African Cup of Nations in South Africa in 1996.<\/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 defender, Joe Addo Former Black Stars defender, Joe Addo has emphatically stated that football in the country has not improved. He believes if the GFA are able to implement decisions taken at the Cape Coast summit will do a lot of good to our football. \u201dIt hasn\u2019t changed.It is deteriorating. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":439915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Football in Ghana has declined - Joe Addo - 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\/12\/09\/football-in-ghana-has-declined-joe-addo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Football in Ghana has declined - Joe Addo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former Black Stars defender, Joe Addo Former Black Stars defender, Joe Addo has emphatically stated that football in the country has not improved. 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