{"id":1200512,"date":"2022-09-08T07:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/michael-essien-is-my-all-time-greatest-ghanaian-footballer\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T07:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:03:40","slug":"michael-essien-is-my-all-time-greatest-ghanaian-footballer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/michael-essien-is-my-all-time-greatest-ghanaian-footballer\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Essien is my all-time greatest Ghanaian footballer"},"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<p>Michael Essien used to be one of the top footballers on the National football team, Black Stars. He was also the former midfielder for the international football team Chelsea. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Shatta Wale becomes the first African to top Apple Reggae USA chart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The retired footballer, Essien won four trophies with Lyon before joining Chelsea to add nine more honors to his trophy cabinet. He also won the UEFA Champions League with Chelsea in 2012, after losing in the finals in 2008 to Manchester United.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280194\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FNgLdmaXoAQNqCu.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FNgLdmaXoAQNqCu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280194\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Michael Essien left the international football team, Chelsea because the coach refused to use him after he recovered from injury and kept benching him. <\/p>\n<p>Hughton, who has met Essien on a few occasions, spoke highly of the former Black Stars player.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: I\u2019m not ready for Ghana\u2019s return \u2013 Agyemang Badu says<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy all-time greatest Ghanaian footballer would be Michael Essien. One because he was in London so I saw a lot of him when he played. I had the pleasure to meet him on a few occasions and to speak with him but he was a very influential player in I think what was the turnaround in what we are seeing now at Chelsea,\u201d he told TV3 in a Q and A session.<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.ghbase.com<\/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; Michael Essien used to be one of the top footballers on the National football team, Black Stars. He was also the former midfielder for the international football team Chelsea. READ ALSO: Shatta Wale becomes the first African to top Apple Reggae USA chart The retired footballer, Essien won four trophies with Lyon before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2430,7628,863,1750,10525,511],"class_list":["post-1200512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alltime","tag-essien","tag-footballer","tag-ghanaian","tag-greatest","tag-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200512","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=1200512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}