{"id":1168721,"date":"2022-08-06T16:11:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/fc-samartex-name-annor-walker-as-new-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T16:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:11:44","slug":"fc-samartex-name-annor-walker-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/06\/fc-samartex-name-annor-walker-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Samartex name Annor Walker as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"812\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/download-4-696x812.png\"   alt=\"Annor Walker\" title=\"Annor Walker\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annor Walker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana Premier League newcomers, FC Samartex have appointed Annor Walker as the new head coach of the side ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran Ghanaian trainer signed a two-year deal with\u00a0the Timber Ginats ahead of the 2022-2023 Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Samreboi-based club secured qualification to the Premier League after winning Zone Two of the 2021\/22 Division One League season.<\/p>\n<p>Annor Walker, until his new role, was the head coach of Accra Great Olympics where he guided the team to 6th place in the 2021-2022 campaign and an improved 5th place in 2021-2022.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The license A holder also doubles as the Head Coach of Ghana\u2019s Black Galaxies with which he led the team to beat Benin 4-0 in aggregate to set up the final qualifying round with Nigeria in the 2023 Championship of African Nations (CHAN).<\/p>\n<p>Walker previously had stints with Nania, Heart of Lions and Berekum Chelsea where he won the FA Cup and Super Cup in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Hearts of Oak coach, Henry Wellington, who led the club to the top flight has left the club.<\/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=\"bcHC9sB2q1U\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LPG Shortage: Scarcity still looms as tanker drivers remain on strike \u2013 Adom TV News (5-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bcHC9sB2q1U?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>Annor Walker Ghana Premier League newcomers, FC Samartex have appointed Annor Walker as the new head coach of the side ahead of the new season. The veteran Ghanaian trainer signed a two-year deal with\u00a0the Timber Ginats ahead of the 2022-2023 Ghana Premier League. The Samreboi-based club secured qualification to the Premier League after winning Zone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[9319,1763,5628,7516],"class_list":["post-1168721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-annor","tag-coach","tag-samartex","tag-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168721","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=1168721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}