{"id":1137679,"date":"2022-06-29T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/29\/former-black-stars-player-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T16:34:49","slug":"former-black-stars-player-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/29\/former-black-stars-player-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Black Stars player passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"645\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_2022-06-29_100723579.png\"   alt=\"Abu Imoro\" title=\"Abu Imoro\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Former Black Stars and Olympics player, Abu Imoro, has been reported dead.<\/p>\n<p>The death of the ex-footballer was confirmed by Anthony Baffoe, the former Deputy General Secretary of Confederation of African Football (CAF) on social media, Tuesday, June 28.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of Imoro\u2019s death is yet to be known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbu Imoro \u2018Tigana\u2019 is no more amongst us \u2026he died 1 hour ago ..May his soul rest in perfect peace,\u201d part of his tweet read.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>The legendary player established himself in the Black Stars squad during 1980s at the heart of midfield.<\/p>\n<p>However, his life took a turn for the worst due to hard drugs and was later sent to rehabilitation centre for reform following his retirement, per reports from 3Sports.<\/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=\"4K9xVaUfpk4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I Will Arrest Policeman Who Threw Stones At Protesters&quot; - Akamba (29-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4K9xVaUfpk4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"\"I Will Arrest Policeman Who Threw Stones At Protesters\" - Akamba (29-6-22)\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Black Stars and Olympics player, Abu Imoro, has been reported dead. The death of the ex-footballer was confirmed by Anthony Baffoe, the former Deputy General Secretary of Confederation of African Football (CAF) on social media, Tuesday, June 28. The cause of Imoro\u2019s death is yet to be known. \u201cAbu Imoro \u2018Tigana\u2019 is no more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1137681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,11373,731,95],"class_list":["post-1137679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-passes","tag-player","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137679","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=1137679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}