{"id":1168496,"date":"2022-08-06T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/england-based-defender-is-a-bit-undervalued-in-ghana-bbc-journalist\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:01:14","slug":"england-based-defender-is-a-bit-undervalued-in-ghana-bbc-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/england-based-defender-is-a-bit-undervalued-in-ghana-bbc-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEngland Based Defender is a Bit Undervalued in Ghana\u201d &#8211; BBC Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Reading fc defender, Andy Yiadom has often courted negative reviews from Ghanaian football fans due to his style of defending.<\/p>\n<p>Yiadom, 30, who is predominately a defensive right-back, had his first international call up in 2016 and went on to make his debut in Ghana\u2019s 1\u20130 loss to Egypt in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fb389828956b44d89ba128451f361c4a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>His style of play has not enthused most Ghanaians that much but BBC Sports journalist, John Bennett believes the former Barnsley defender is \u201ca bit undervalued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think sometimes he is a bit undervalued in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people give him a lot of criticism in Ghana from what I read online and when I was in Ghana few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s seems Andy gets criticized a lot which I think it\u2019s a bit unfair.\u201d John Bennett told Radio Gold Talk Sport.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the Ghana National Team in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations that was eliminated at the group stage of the competition in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Yiadom was named captain of Reading in the opening game of the 2922\/23 English Championship season.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAndy Yiadom<br \/>\nBarnsley<br \/>\nEngland<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGhanaians<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading fc defender, Andy Yiadom has often courted negative reviews from Ghanaian football fans due to his style of defending. Yiadom, 30, who is predominately a defensive right-back, had his first international call up in 2016 and went on to make his debut in Ghana\u2019s 1\u20130 loss to Egypt in the 2017 Africa Cup of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[964,866,15465,397,8571,85,2106,22497],"class_list":["post-1168496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-based","tag-bbc","tag-bit","tag-defender","tag-england","tag-ghana","tag-journalist","tag-undervalued"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168496","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=1168496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}