{"id":1076043,"date":"2022-05-04T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/asante-kotoko-will-not-accept-cheap-medals-from-gfa\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:43:43","slug":"asante-kotoko-will-not-accept-cheap-medals-from-gfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/asante-kotoko-will-not-accept-cheap-medals-from-gfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Asante Kotoko will not accept cheap medals from GFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"507\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/120101013_3405072359529727_3930710533552106719_n-696x507.jpg\"   alt=\"Jerome Otchere\" title=\"Jerome Otchere\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerome Otchere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Kotoko Express editor, Jerome Otchere has cautioned the Ghana Football Association [GFA] not to present any cheap medals to his side when they emerge as the winners of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is obvious that Asante Kotoko will win the Premier League and we all expect proper medals to be presented to the players and the technical team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The porcupine warriors are on course of winning the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League as they sit top of the league log with 55 points after 27 matches played.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Medals awarded to last season winners, Accra Hearts of Oak dominated the local media with many calling out the GFA.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/hearts-medals.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2111227\"  \/><figcaption><strong>Premier League and FA Cup medals awarded to Hearts of Oak last season<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Jerome, the country\u2019s football governing body must invest in the local league\u00a0and ensure proper medals are awarded to the champions of the Premier League and the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell the Ghana Football Association [GFA] to do better this time around because Asante Kotoko will not accept any cheap medals as Ghana Premier League champions,\u201d he said on the Ultimate Sports Show on <strong>Asempa FM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FA must be ready to invest and ensure the right thing is done. Teams are investing and the champion is given a cheap medal? This should not happen\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n<p>Asante Kotoko will host Aduana Stars in the matchday 28 games at the Baba Yara Stadium On Sunday with kick-off at 15:00GMT.<\/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=\"2-55nboxKss\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Security services urged to be proactive to avert possible tragedy on our roads (4-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-55nboxKss?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>Jerome Otchere Former Kotoko Express editor, Jerome Otchere has cautioned the Ghana Football Association [GFA] not to present any cheap medals to his side when they emerge as the winners of the season. \u201cIt is obvious that Asante Kotoko will win the Premier League and we all expect proper medals to be presented to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2777,213,8293,1615,16,5915],"class_list":{"0":"post-1076043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-accept","9":"tag-asante","10":"tag-cheap","11":"tag-gfa","12":"tag-kotoko","13":"tag-medals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076043","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=1076043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}