{"id":1161314,"date":"2022-07-28T21:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/28\/pre-season-abroad-does-not-guarantee-trophies\/"},"modified":"2022-07-28T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:48:11","slug":"pre-season-abroad-does-not-guarantee-trophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/28\/pre-season-abroad-does-not-guarantee-trophies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-season abroad does not guarantee trophies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ESv2vOVXsAAMQ4o.jpg\"   alt=\"Kwame Opare Addo\" title=\"Kwame Opare Addo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwame Opare Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Communications Director of Hearts of Oak, Kwame Opare Addo, has taken a swipe at rivals, Asante Kotoko, saying having\u00a0preseason out of the country doesn\u2019t guarantee winning trophies.<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup winners have started their pre-season ahead of the 2022\/23 Ghana football season. It is yet to be known if the Phobian Club will travel outside the country to prepare for the season.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ghana Premier League champions, Asante Kotoko will fly to Turkey for their pre-season as they prepare to defend their title and play in the CAF Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>However, Opare Addo says having\u00a0preseason away from the country doesn\u2019t guarantee success in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHearts of Oak will decide where to have pre-season. We don\u2019t look at an opponent to do what we do,\u201d he said on <strong>Asempa FM <\/strong>on the <strong>Ultimate Sports Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo seasons ago we had pre-season in Ghana but won the league so soon we will make a decision whether to move out or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManchester United moved out of England for pre-season but they haven\u2019t won anything in a while. All that matters is finding a serene environment. Going out of the country isn\u2019t a guarantee that you\u2019ll win the league,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hearts of Oak will represent the country in the 2022\/23 CAF Confederations Cup campaign.<\/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=\"80vbrvKBlg4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Absentee MP: Speaker defers decision on Sarah Adwoa Safo\u2019s fate \u2013 Adom TV News (28-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/80vbrvKBlg4?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>Kwame Opare Addo Communications Director of Hearts of Oak, Kwame Opare Addo, has taken a swipe at rivals, Asante Kotoko, saying having\u00a0preseason out of the country doesn\u2019t guarantee winning trophies. The FA Cup winners have started their pre-season ahead of the 2022\/23 Ghana football season. It is yet to be known if the Phobian Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1132028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[8829,18886,4710],"class_list":["post-1161314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-guarantee","tag-preseason","tag-trophies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161314","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=1161314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}