{"id":1240927,"date":"2022-11-01T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/hearts-and-kotoko-did-not-have-the-standard-to-play-in-africa-ex-tp-mazembe-defender\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:09:13","slug":"hearts-and-kotoko-did-not-have-the-standard-to-play-in-africa-ex-tp-mazembe-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/hearts-and-kotoko-did-not-have-the-standard-to-play-in-africa-ex-tp-mazembe-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHearts And Kotoko Did Not Have The Standard to Play in Africa\u201d &#8211; Ex-TP Mazembe Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Ghanaian Midfielder, Richard Kissi Boateng, has stated lack of professionalism from Ghanaian clubs is making them ineffective in Africa\u2019s elite competition.<\/p>\n<p>Kissi Boateng, a former TP Mazembe player, further stressed on the fact that Ghanaian club administrators refusal to invest in clubs additionally lowers standards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/a9be00463b354e83915167ad2231fdfc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can\u2019t sacrifice to put more in it, then I\u2019m not sure you are ready for the task\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt( Hearts of Oak, Kotoko), was not up to most of the top clubs who were playing the African competitions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the facilities and the professionalism, I\u2019m not sure those clubs are up to professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Because the bigger clubs are putting in more in it to earn less\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Boateng won both the CAF Champions league and confederations cup with TP Mazembe.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s two glamorous clubs, Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko exited the continental campaign in a dramatic fashion much to the chagrin of the clubs fans.<\/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\">\nHearts of Oak<br \/>\nKissi Boateng<br \/>\nKotoko<br \/>\nRichard Kissi Boateng<br \/>\nTP Mazembe<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghanaian Midfielder, Richard Kissi Boateng, has stated lack of professionalism from Ghanaian clubs is making them ineffective in Africa\u2019s elite competition. Kissi Boateng, a former TP Mazembe player, further stressed on the fact that Ghanaian club administrators refusal to invest in clubs additionally lowers standards. \u201cIf you can\u2019t sacrifice to put more in it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[671,397,28358,216,16,28359,463,4866],"class_list":["post-1240927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-africa","tag-defender","tag-extp","tag-hearts","tag-kotoko","tag-mazembe","tag-play","tag-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240927","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=1240927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}