{"id":446269,"date":"2017-12-12T14:41:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/hearts-kotoko-are-now-ordinary-fawaz-zowk\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:41:01","slug":"hearts-kotoko-are-now-ordinary-fawaz-zowk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/hearts-kotoko-are-now-ordinary-fawaz-zowk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts, Kotoko are now ordinary &#8211; Fawaz Zowk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-12<\/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\/20792014.295.jpg\" alt=\"Fawaz Zowk Hearts\" title=\"Fawaz Zowk Hearts\" width=\"295\" height=\"233\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Hearts of Oak management member, Alhaji Fawaz Zowk<\/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\/1513089661_776_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Hearts of Oak management member Alhaji Fawaz Zowk believes the current administrators have sacrificed the club&#8217;s traditions and that has been the cause of their decline. <\/p>\n<p>He fears the club can never bounce back and compete for titles.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak have not won the Ghana Premier League since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hearts of Oak is a traditional club, if you want to implement professionalism you should make sure the professionalism goes in-line with the tradition, If you remove the traditional aspect from the team, it will be an &#8216;ordinary&#8217; club,&#8221; Zowk said in an interview with OTEC FM Royal Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not my Hearts of Oak is used to know, I&#8217;m not happy about how things are being run in the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The future of club is bleak and I&#8217;m ready to help if am been called upon, because I was born a Phobian and by God&#8217;s grace I will die a Phobian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zowk is also concerned about the slump in form of rivals Asante Kotoko.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko are now ordinary clubs; they can win, draw or lose at any time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;But, in those days after a game, you will ask how many goals was scored, you will not ask whether we were beating or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Players who played for Hearts of Oak in our time considered it as a big honour playing for, but why are we now chasing players to play for the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club must target stars and young talents in the country who can bring back the supporters to the stadium, players who can absolve pressure from the supporter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;They shouldn\u2019t always go for matured and \u2018already made\u2019 who cannot change the misfortunes of the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. 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