{"id":1143258,"date":"2022-07-06T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/06\/afriyie-barnieh-names-his-toughest-defender\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:11:33","slug":"afriyie-barnieh-names-his-toughest-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/06\/afriyie-barnieh-names-his-toughest-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"Afriyie Barnieh names his toughest defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"473\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-07-12-at-10.10.18-696x473.jpeg\"   alt=\"Afriyie Barnieh celebrates\" title=\"Afriyie Barnieh celebrates\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afriyie Barnieh celebrates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Striker Daniel Afriyie Barnieh has named Medeama SC defender, Vincent Atingah, as his toughest defender in the just-ended 2021\/22 Ghana football season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the club\u2019s poor performance, Barnieh was in good form for the side and netted the winner against Bechem United in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak beat Bechem United 2-1 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>But Barnieh\u2019s toughest defender he faced was not in the FA Cup, it was against Medeama\u2019s Vincent Atingah who he faced twice in the Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an experienced defender and he has played in foreign leagues and met good players,\u201d he said on <strong>Ladies Time<\/strong> on <strong>Asempa FM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtingah plays with a lot of calmness and he seemed to know all our key moves and mine as well,\u201d he told Asempa FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever I play against him, we both struggle and that\u2019s because he\u2019s experienced and understands the local game too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Atingah was at Hearts of Oak under Scottish coach Frank Nuttal.<\/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=\"jgYqYmdiEBU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NDC Gen. Sec. urges gov&#039;t to use drivers to boost tourism and fight terrorism(6-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgYqYmdiEBU?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>Afriyie Barnieh celebrates Striker Daniel Afriyie Barnieh has named Medeama SC defender, Vincent Atingah, as his toughest defender in the just-ended 2021\/22 Ghana football season. Despite the club\u2019s poor performance, Barnieh was in good form for the side and netted the winner against Bechem United in the FA Cup. Hearts of Oak beat Bechem United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6724,9555,397,772,19856],"class_list":["post-1143258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afriyie","tag-barnieh","tag-defender","tag-names","tag-toughest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143258","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=1143258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}