{"id":1075635,"date":"2022-05-04T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/ex-asante-kotoko-defender-gideon-baah-confirmed-as-player-coach-at-us-npsl-side-fc-motown\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:25:16","slug":"ex-asante-kotoko-defender-gideon-baah-confirmed-as-player-coach-at-us-npsl-side-fc-motown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/ex-asante-kotoko-defender-gideon-baah-confirmed-as-player-coach-at-us-npsl-side-fc-motown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Asante Kotoko defender Gideon Baah confirmed as player-coach at US NPSL side FC Motown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Ghana international and Asante Kotoko defender Gideon Baah has been announced as a player cum coach at United States National Premier Soccer League, NPSL side FC Morristown.<\/p>\n<p>Baah, who is nearing the end of his career, will play and act as a coach for the US second tier side this season to build on his coaching badges.<\/p>\n<p>Commonly known as FC Motown, the club is based in Morristown, New Jersey and was founded in 2012 and is jointly owned by Dan Karosen and Scott Kindzierski.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ddfd9aef386e49d69bec73ebd07ae97a\"\/>Baah, joins FC Motown from Shakther Karagandi in Kazakhstan where he scored two goals in 24 matches between 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He has also played for clubs in Finland as well as his native Ghana notably for Zaytuna FC and Sporting Mirren.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year old will be expected to bring his experience gained in the game over the years to bare on the FC Motown side this season.<\/p>\n<p>FC Motown will open their account in the US NPSL on Saturday in an away encounter against Jackson Lions at the Donovan Catholic High School, Toms River, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a season opener for Gideon Baah and his colleagues, and, they will look to begin the campaign on a high with a win.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: KONTOMIRE (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAsante Kotoko<br \/>\nFC Motown<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGideon Baah<br \/>\nNew Jersey<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghana international and Asante Kotoko defender Gideon Baah has been announced as a player cum coach at United States National Premier Soccer League, NPSL side FC Morristown. Baah, who is nearing the end of his career, will play and act as a coach for the US second tier side this season to build on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10183,4648,397,11719,11720,16,11721,11722,10313,800],"class_list":["post-1075635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-baah","tag-confirmed","tag-defender","tag-exasante","tag-gideon","tag-kotoko","tag-motown","tag-npsl","tag-playercoach","tag-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075635","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=1075635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}