{"id":1246009,"date":"2022-11-07T17:16:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/there-are-no-quality-players-in-the-ghana-league-former-hearts-chairman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:16:47","slug":"there-are-no-quality-players-in-the-ghana-league-former-hearts-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/there-are-no-quality-players-in-the-ghana-league-former-hearts-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere Are no Quality Players in The Ghana League\u201d &#8211; Former Hearts Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Renowned football administrator, Harry Zakour has said that, the level of player quality in the Ghana Premier League has reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Only three local players have been named in the Black Stars 55-man provisional FIFA World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak duo of Dennis Korsah, Daniel Afriyie Barnieh and Asante Kotoko goalkeeper, Danlad Ibrahim were named in the initial list that will be pruned down to 26.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/6fad16327d9a4a3a86e1fd3ac40aa8b1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Zakour says the level of quality players in the domestic league is not up to the required standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no good quality of players in the country at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say if you look at what the Black Stars are doing at the moment, all our quality players are playing outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know the facilities in the country are very poor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s part of the economy but things will be ok soon, let\u2019s cross our fingers and that\u2019s not the end of football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they government has to sit in and has to reduce the GRA so that the clubs can pay the players well.\u201d Harry Zakour told Radio Gold Ralk Sport.<\/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\">\nDaniel Afriyie Barnieh<br \/>\nDennis Korsah<br \/>\nGhana Premier League<br \/>\nHarry Zakour<br \/>\nHearts of Oak<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned football administrator, Harry Zakour has said that, the level of player quality in the Ghana Premier League has reduced. Only three local players have been named in the Black Stars 55-man provisional FIFA World Cup squad. Hearts of Oak duo of Dennis Korsah, Daniel Afriyie Barnieh and Asante Kotoko goalkeeper, Danlad Ibrahim were named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1246010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4159,85,216,674,190,3914],"class_list":["post-1246009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-chairman","tag-ghana","tag-hearts","tag-league","tag-players","tag-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246009","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=1246009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}