{"id":1207684,"date":"2022-09-20T10:21:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/20\/ex-asante-kotoko-captain-abdul-ganiyu-joins-iraqi-side-al-talaba-sc\/"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:21:48","slug":"ex-asante-kotoko-captain-abdul-ganiyu-joins-iraqi-side-al-talaba-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/20\/ex-asante-kotoko-captain-abdul-ganiyu-joins-iraqi-side-al-talaba-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Asante Kotoko captain Abdul Ganiyu joins Iraqi side Al Talaba SC \u00bb \u2122"},"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<h2><strong>Abdul Ganiyu Ismail, formerly the captain of Asante Kotoko, has joined Al Talaba SC of the Iraqi Premier League.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The 26-year-old has agreed to terms on a one-year deal with the Al Shaab Stadium club, with an additional year added if he performs well.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2021\/22 season of the Iraqi Premier League, Al Talaba SC had the third-best record.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran centre defender left Kotoko before the start of the 2022\/23 Ghana football season for reasons that are yet unknown.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>When he was on the field, he was an integral part of the defense that led the Porcupine Warriors to the top of the Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0SAD: Asante Kotoko out of CAF Champions League after penalty defeat to RC Kadiogo<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>When Ganiyu first started training with the defending champions of the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League, he was shockingly left off the list of players who would be making the trip to Sudan for the club\u2019s second part of preseason.<\/p>\n<p>The team had already stated its intention to relieve Abdul Ganiyu Ismail of his leadership prior to his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>New captain Richard Boadu of the midfielders was announced last week, with assistants Ibrahim Danlad, Christopher Nettey, and Moise Pouaty.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Asante Kotoko paid an unknown sum to acquire Ganiyu Ismail from Karela United.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"aqdWcCMkBE0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Penalties: Asante Kotoko 1: 3 RC Kadiogo \u2013 CAF Champions League\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aqdWcCMkBE0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/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; Abdul Ganiyu Ismail, formerly the captain of Asante Kotoko, has joined Al Talaba SC of the Iraqi Premier League. The 26-year-old has agreed to terms on a one-year deal with the Al Shaab Stadium club, with an additional year added if he performs well. After the 2021\/22 season of the Iraqi Premier League, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14629,1099,11719,26003,20461,658,16,800,26004],"class_list":["post-1207684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abdul","tag-captain","tag-exasante","tag-ganiyu","tag-iraqi","tag-joins","tag-kotoko","tag-side","tag-talaba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207684","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=1207684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}