{"id":1088760,"date":"2022-05-16T10:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/16\/ashantigold-sc-demoted-to-division-two-for-match-manipulation\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:32:29","slug":"ashantigold-sc-demoted-to-division-two-for-match-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/16\/ashantigold-sc-demoted-to-division-two-for-match-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"AshantiGold SC demoted to Division Two for match manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"418\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Dr-Kwaku-Frimpong-AshantiGold2-696x418.jpg\"   alt=\"Dr Kwaku Frimpong\" title=\"Dr Kwaku Frimpong\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Kwaku Frimpong <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ashantigold Sporting Club has been demoted to Division Two, Ghana\u2019s 3rd tier league, after being found guilty of match manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association is about a Ghana Premier League game that ended 7-0 between Ashantigold and Inter Allies.<\/p>\n<p>An Allies player, Hashmin Musah,\u00a0scored two own goals\u00a0and later admitted his action was to spoil a bet placed on the said game.<\/p>\n<p>A decision read that the club\u2019s President, Dr. Kwaku Frimpong, and his son, Emmanuel Frimpong, who is the club\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, have also been banned from football activities for 10 years and 8 years respectively.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Eight players of the club have also been banned for two years each after being found guilty of match manipulation, while a further five players have also been handed four-year bans for failure to appear before the GFA\u2019s Disciplinary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the club has been fined an amount of Ghs 100,000, the President was fined Ghs 100,000, and the CEO fined Ghs 50,000.<\/p>\n<p>The decision will take effect from the 2022\/2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full verdict:<\/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=\"_fYNnntgExA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President of The Republic of Ghana arrives at the burial grounds - Adom TV (14-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fYNnntgExA?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>Dr Kwaku Frimpong Ashantigold Sporting Club has been demoted to Division Two, Ghana\u2019s 3rd tier league, after being found guilty of match manipulation. The decision by the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association is about a Ghana Premier League game that ended 7-0 between Ashantigold and Inter Allies. An Allies player, Hashmin Musah,\u00a0scored two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6399,5619,4101,4395,1508],"class_list":["post-1088760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ashantigold","tag-demoted","tag-division","tag-manipulation","tag-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088760","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=1088760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}