{"id":1143791,"date":"2022-07-07T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T09:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/theres-nothing-wrong-with-players-drinking-and-smoking-dan-quaye-defends-hearts-of-oak-players\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T09:52:30","slug":"theres-nothing-wrong-with-players-drinking-and-smoking-dan-quaye-defends-hearts-of-oak-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/theres-nothing-wrong-with-players-drinking-and-smoking-dan-quaye-defends-hearts-of-oak-players\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There\u2019s nothing wrong with players drinking and smoking&#8217; \u2013 Dan Quaye defends Hearts of Oak players \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Retired Defender Dan Quaye, formerly of Hearts of Oak and the Ghanaian national team, has downplayed the ongoing stigmatization of Ghanaian athletes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Players, he claimed, are not breaking the law when they consume booze or smoke cigarettes following a game.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that this behaviour is commonplace around the world, it baffles Dan Quaye why it is only condemned in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He described drinking and smoking as common celebrations and energy-recovery practices among European players.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is a culture that encourages excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages and the use of tobacco products. Some players in Germany and Spain drink beer to refuel after a game, while others light up as a gesture of celebration following a victory \u201cOn Agyenkwa FM, 101.9, the former Great Olympic player revealed his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Olympic player revealed it was a common practice for him to drink beer following victory over Asante Kotoko. He urged Ghanaians to cease seeing alcohol and smoking as dreadful offences against athletes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>When a player in our country is spotted drinking, it\u2019s prohibited and newsworthy in the public, \u201conly in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to down a bottle of Guinness before every game. After a victory, \u201cit\u2019s just a little moment of joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven after we won the Super Cup by beating Kotoko, I still drank one bottle of Guinness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A board member for Hearts of Oak had claimed that some of the team\u2019s players smoked and drank before games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>VIDEO BELOW:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"4-S9Hzsz1WA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hearts of Oak players sm0ke heavily before games - Dr. Nyaho\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4-S9Hzsz1WA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Retired Defender Dan Quaye, formerly of Hearts of Oak and the Ghanaian national team, has downplayed the ongoing stigmatization of Ghanaian athletes. Players, he claimed, are not breaking the law when they consume booze or smoke cigarettes following a game. Considering that this behaviour is commonplace around the world, it baffles Dan Quaye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2395,747,5147,216,217,190,1914,5678,1030],"class_list":["post-1143791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dan","tag-defends","tag-drinking","tag-hearts","tag-oak","tag-players","tag-quaye","tag-smoking","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143791","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=1143791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}