{"id":448696,"date":"2017-12-20T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/paralyzed-agyemang-duah-gets-support-from-legend-club\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:00:30","slug":"paralyzed-agyemang-duah-gets-support-from-legend-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/paralyzed-agyemang-duah-gets-support-from-legend-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralyzed Agyemang Duah gets support from Legend Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-20<\/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\/69258244.295.jpg\" alt=\"Agyemang Duah Cry\" title=\"Agyemang Duah Cry\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Agyemang Duah could not hold back his tears as he received the cash donation<\/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\/12\/1513785630_842_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Legend Club, a US-based Non-governmental organization has donated a cash amount of GHC5000 to paralyzed football legend  Emmanuel Agyemang Duah.<\/p>\n<p>The former Hearts of Oak and Kotoko defender suffered a stroke attack five years ago which has rendered some parts of his body disabled.<\/p>\n<p>His appeal for assistance seem to have yielded some result as the US-based philanthropic group has donated some amount of cash to aid recovery from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the reason for their visit, the Club\u2019s representative said that members of the group were saddened by the current state of the football legend hence the decision to contribute their widow\u2019s mite to expedite his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the items, a teary Agyemang-Duah expressed his utmost appreciation to the group and also appealed to benevolent Ghanaians to come to his aid.<\/p>\n<p>Legend Agyemang Duah came close to winning the African Cup twice but on both occasions suffered heartaches.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Agyemang-Duah failed to convert his kick during the post-match penalty shootout against Zamalek in Cairo. 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