{"id":1248569,"date":"2022-11-11T01:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/players-dont-chase-money-at-the-world-cup-ex-black-stars-defender\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T01:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:52:04","slug":"players-dont-chase-money-at-the-world-cup-ex-black-stars-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/players-dont-chase-money-at-the-world-cup-ex-black-stars-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlayers Don\u2019t Chase Money at The World Cup\u201d &#8211; Ex-Black Stars Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Ex-Black Stars defender, Shilla Illiasu has stated that, Black Stars players don\u2019t necessarily focus on money at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Issues of qualification bonuses took center stage at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil where delays in payment helped kick Ghana out of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Black Stars third appearance at the global football tournament but it ended up as a poor finish.<\/p>\n<p>That notwithstanding, Shilla Illiasu has jumped to the defence of the Black Stars players.<\/p>\n<p>Shilla Illiasu spoke to Adamu Muftawu of Radio Gold Talk Sport.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/3582222b58724c4aac83acb07c291a42\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough everybody is looking for money but I will say it is not about that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the players some of them are playing outside, the money they are taking it\u2019s not about the winning bonus in the national team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they only target to go and make their name and get more contract outside.\u201d Shilla Illiasu told Radio Gold Talk 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\">\nAdamu Muftawu<br \/>\nBlack<br \/>\nBlack Stars<br \/>\nShilla Illiasu<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Black Stars defender, Shilla Illiasu has stated that, Black Stars players don\u2019t necessarily focus on money at the World Cup. Issues of qualification bonuses took center stage at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil where delays in payment helped kick Ghana out of the group stage. It was the Black Stars third appearance at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1248570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3869,262,397,342,5475,383,190,95,784],"class_list":["post-1248569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-chase","tag-cup","tag-defender","tag-dont","tag-exblack","tag-money","tag-players","tag-stars","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248569","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=1248569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}