{"id":1074747,"date":"2022-05-03T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/03\/ex-black-stars-defender-reveals-how-he-used-to-sell-weed-to-survive\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:29:48","slug":"ex-black-stars-defender-reveals-how-he-used-to-sell-weed-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/03\/ex-black-stars-defender-reveals-how-he-used-to-sell-weed-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Black Stars defender reveals how he used to sell &#8216;weed&#8217; to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"626\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/EYkPdpUXYAITu08-1024x921-1-696x626.jpg\"   alt=\"Former Ghana defender Samuel Osei Kuffour\" title=\"Former Ghana defender Samuel Osei Kuffour\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Ghana defender Samuel Osei Kuffour<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Ghana defender, Samuel Osei Kuffour\u00a0has shockingly revealed that he used to sell marijuana \u2018weed\u2019 to survive while growing up.<\/p>\n<p>Kuffour speaking in an interview made these shocking statements. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a bad boy, I was a shoeshine boy, I was a wee seller, I was doing a lot of horrible things in my life,\u201d\u00a0he told\u00a0Heart and Soul Programme on GTV\u2019s Lifestyle TV.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bayern Munich centre back played for the Black Stars from 1993 to 2006, making 54 appearances and scoring three goals in the process.<\/p>\n<p>He was also part of the Ghana side that qualified for the country\u2019s first-ever FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-center-back also enjoyed a glamorous career with German giants Bayern, with whom he won the UEFA Champions League in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Kuffour was part of the Ghana FIFA Normalization Committee and is currently part of the Black Stars Management Committee.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7UpzryTDp1E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Happy Eid-Ul-Fitr to all Muslims - Badwam on Adom TV (3-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UpzryTDp1E?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghana defender Samuel Osei Kuffour Former Ghana defender, Samuel Osei Kuffour\u00a0has shockingly revealed that he used to sell marijuana \u2018weed\u2019 to survive while growing up. Kuffour speaking in an interview made these shocking statements. \u201cI was a bad boy, I was a shoeshine boy, I was a wee seller, I was doing a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1074749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[397,5475,51,2314,95,5156,4154],"class_list":["post-1074747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-defender","tag-exblack","tag-reveals","tag-sell","tag-stars","tag-survive","tag-weed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}