{"id":1138489,"date":"2022-06-30T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/deputy-ashgold-ceo-apologizes-for-match-fixing-claims\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:17:01","slug":"deputy-ashgold-ceo-apologizes-for-match-fixing-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/deputy-ashgold-ceo-apologizes-for-match-fixing-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Ashgold CEO apologizes for match-fixing claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"462\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1656613021_753_Screenshot-2022-06-28-150918-696x462.png\"   alt=\"Albert Commey\" title=\"Albert Commey\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Commey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Ashanti Gold SC,\u00a0Albert Commey has apologized for his match-fixing allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The former Aduana Stars CEO accused several clubs of playing fixed games in the final round of the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Commey alleged that the\u00a0match between the Hearts of Oak\u00a0and Real Tamale United, which ended 4-1\u00a0was fixed.<\/p>\n<p>RTU entered the game desperate for three points. It was their only hope of avoiding relegation from the top flight and they recorded a shocking result to stay up.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that the match between his AshantiGold and Bibiani Goldstars, in which Yaw Annor scored two goals to win the golden boot, was fixed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana Premier League was competitive but wasn\u2019t happy with the final day because there were lots of fixed games. RTU never won any match away. Ashgold v Bibiani Gold Stars was fixed. Wonders v Aduana was fixed. King Faisal vs Legon Cities was fixed,\u201d Commey said on <strong>Space FM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the experienced football administrator has made a U-turn to apologize for his comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have realized that the interview I granted to Space FM in Sunyani recently has generated a lot of controversy among the football fraternity, especially the clubs whose names I mentioned in the said interview\u201d, Commey said in a portion of his statement.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full statement:\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-30-161613.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2132842\"  \/><\/figure>\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=\"3yRHwGsyWBU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire Outbreak: Girls&#039; dormitories at Kwahu Ridge Sec. 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Mr. Commey alleged that the\u00a0match between the Hearts of Oak\u00a0and Real Tamale United, which ended 4-1\u00a0was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1136866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[12558,872,650,276,651,13643],"class_list":["post-1138489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apologizes","tag-ashgold","tag-ceo","tag-claims","tag-deputy","tag-matchfixing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138489","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=1138489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}