{"id":1134051,"date":"2022-06-25T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/25\/black-stars-asante-kotoko-players-shouldnt-be-overlooked\/"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:06:40","slug":"black-stars-asante-kotoko-players-shouldnt-be-overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/25\/black-stars-asante-kotoko-players-shouldnt-be-overlooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars: Asante Kotoko players shouldn&#8217;t be overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1654533517_669_kotoko-1-750x536-1-696x497.jpg\"   alt=\"Asante Kotoko players\" title=\"Asante Kotoko players\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asante Kotoko players<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nana Yaw Amponsah has said Asante Kotoko players deserve a place in the senior national team, the Black Stars following their Premier League success.<\/p>\n<p>Despite winning the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League, no Kotoko player earned a call-up to the Black Stars for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers against Madagascar and the Central Africa Republic [CAR].<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, Mr Amponsah, who is the Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of the club, revealed the side expected call-ups for some players but is of the view the technical team had what it needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected some of our players to be named in Black Stars squad but the technical handlers felt they have what they need but we will keep pushing them to do their best all the time,\u201d the 2019 Ghana Football Association presidential candidate said on<strong>\u00a0Adom TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Porcupine Warriors will be representing Ghana in the CAF Champions League next season.<\/p>\n<p>Asante Kotoko will play the winner of the MTN FA Cup final in the Ghana FA\u2019s \u2018champions of champions\u2019.<\/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=\"U0-Kz7D1DoI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Captain Justifies 1972 Busia C\u00f8up: Says govt\u2019s aliens compliance order compelled him join (24-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0-Kz7D1DoI?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>Asante Kotoko players Nana Yaw Amponsah has said Asante Kotoko players deserve a place in the senior national team, the Black Stars following their Premier League success. Despite winning the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League, no Kotoko player earned a call-up to the Black Stars for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers against Madagascar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1110392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[213,94,16,18884,190,3684,95],"class_list":["post-1134051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asante","tag-black","tag-kotoko","tag-overlooked","tag-players","tag-shouldnt","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134051","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=1134051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}