{"id":449385,"date":"2017-12-22T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/michael-abu-joins-kotoko-sports-news-2017-12-22\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:00:29","slug":"michael-abu-joins-kotoko-sports-news-2017-12-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/michael-abu-joins-kotoko-sports-news-2017-12-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Abu joins Kotoko | Sports News 2017-12-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/73041250.295.jpg\" alt=\"Abu Kotoko\" title=\"Abu Kotoko\" width=\"295\" height=\"150\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Michael Abu has signed a two-year deal with Kotoko<\/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\/1513965629_401_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Asante Kotoko SC has announced the capture of goalkeeper Michael Abu from Cape Coast Ebuasua Dwarfs.<\/p>\n<p>The young enterprising goalkeeper joins on a two-year contract having completed his medicals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Abu spent two seasons at Sekondi Hasaacas before joining Ebusua Dwarfs where he spent another two years. He featured 22 times for the coastal city club in last season\u2019s Premier league campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to www.asantekotokosc.com, the tall, strong goalkeeper said \u2018Kotoko is home\u2019 and pledged to do his best to help the club win more laurels in the coming seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have any second thoughts when the Kotoko management requested for my services. I am a Kumasi boy from Ashanti New Town precisely so Kotoko for me is home. You don\u2019t hesitate in answering when a home based club comes knocking on your door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy coming here, I am also following the footsteps of the many great goalkeepers of Dwarfs who at some point joined Kotoko and excelled as well,\u201d he said. Joe Car (his trainer at Dwarfs) is one of such players. \u201cI am looking to do exactly as they did by helping the club to win the league and also go far in next year\u2019s Confederations Cup,\u201d he concluded<\/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>Michael Abu has signed a two-year deal with Kotoko Asante Kotoko SC has announced the capture of goalkeeper Michael Abu from Cape Coast Ebuasua Dwarfs. The young enterprising goalkeeper joins on a two-year contract having completed his medicals on Friday. Michael Abu spent two seasons at Sekondi Hasaacas before joining Ebusua Dwarfs where he spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Abu joins Kotoko | Sports News 2017-12-22 - 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\/22\/michael-abu-joins-kotoko-sports-news-2017-12-22\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Michael Abu joins Kotoko | Sports News 2017-12-22 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Michael Abu has signed a two-year deal with Kotoko Asante Kotoko SC has announced the capture of goalkeeper Michael Abu from Cape Coast Ebuasua Dwarfs. 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