{"id":1174200,"date":"2022-08-11T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/ck-akonnor-confirms-interest-to-return-to-asante-kotoko\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:20:38","slug":"ck-akonnor-confirms-interest-to-return-to-asante-kotoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/ck-akonnor-confirms-interest-to-return-to-asante-kotoko\/","title":{"rendered":"CK Akonnor confirms interest to return to Asante Kotoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"662\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Asante-Kotoko-vs-Hearts-of-Oak_082-696x662.jpg\"   alt=\"CK Akonnor\" title=\"C.K. Akonnor\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">C.K. Akonor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Ghana coach, Charles Kwabena Akonnor, has revealed that he harbors the desire to return to his former side, Asante Kotoko.<\/p>\n<p>Akonnor, a former Dreams FC and Hearts of Oak head trainer has been out of job since being sacked by the Ghana Football Association [GFA] in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old, during his days with the Porcupine Warriors,\u00a0was sacked after nine months in charge despite winning the Ghana Football Association [GFA] Normalization Committee Special Cup tier 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me returning to Kotoko will be on a different level. Kotoko was full of joy and though I went through a lot of pressure, it was a positive one,\u201d he told Kumasi-based\u00a0<strong>Akoma FM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old guided Asante Kotoko to the group phase of the Confederations cup which was the last time any club had gotten to that stage.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022\/23 Ghana Premier League is scheduled to commence on September 9 with Asante Kotoko yet to name a new head coach after the resignation of Prosper Narteh Ogum.<\/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=\"4KPd8IeROtE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ensuring Efficiency: GWCL makes moves to address overbilling, illegal connections (10-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4KPd8IeROtE?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>C.K. Akonor Former Ghana coach, Charles Kwabena Akonnor, has revealed that he harbors the desire to return to his former side, Asante Kotoko. Akonnor, a former Dreams FC and Hearts of Oak head trainer has been out of job since being sacked by the Ghana Football Association [GFA] in 2021. The 49-year-old, during his days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[735,213,1851,4233,16,1970],"class_list":["post-1174200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-akonnor","tag-asante","tag-confirms","tag-interest","tag-kotoko","tag-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174200","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=1174200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}