{"id":1268389,"date":"2022-12-21T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/21\/black-stars-player-banned-for-betting-involvement\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:43:44","slug":"black-stars-player-banned-for-betting-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/21\/black-stars-player-banned-for-betting-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars player banned for betting involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1657124510_0_image_2022-07-04_080204576-696x392.png\"   alt=\"Alexander Djiku won the Footballer of the Year Award\" title=\"Alexander Djiku won the Footballer of the Year Award\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Djiku won the Footballer of the Year Award\/ Source: Skysports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Black Stars defender, Alexander Djiku, has shockingly been banned by France Football authorities for engaging in sports betting activities.<\/p>\n<p>The highly rated centre back was handed one a one-match ban by the Professional Football League (LFP) in France after investigations concluded over widespread betting by players and officials.<\/p>\n<p>He is set to miss RC Strasbourg\u2019s game against Ligue 1 leaders, Paris Saint German on Wednesday following this incident today.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old made his debut World Cup appearance in Qatar last month with the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>He featured in two of Ghana\u2019s three games in Group H against Portugal and South Korea, however, missed out  on Ghana\u2019s 2-0 defeat to Uruguay in the last game in the just ended tournament.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"N_tQ6ZS6dMU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christmas Plan: We are focused on our Children and the family - Parents - Adom TV News (20-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_tQ6ZS6dMU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Djiku won the Footballer of the Year Award\/ Source: Skysports Black Stars defender, Alexander Djiku, has shockingly been banned by France Football authorities for engaging in sports betting activities. The highly rated centre back was handed one a one-match ban by the Professional Football League (LFP) in France after investigations concluded over widespread betting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268389","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=1268389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}