{"id":1271006,"date":"2022-12-28T20:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/28\/ghanas-alexander-djiku-escapes-punishment-over-betting\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T20:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:33:43","slug":"ghanas-alexander-djiku-escapes-punishment-over-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/28\/ghanas-alexander-djiku-escapes-punishment-over-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Alexander Djiku escapes punishment over betting"},"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=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/skysports-alexander-djiku-ghana_5722514-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Alexander Djiku\" title=\"Alexander Djiku\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Djiku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana defender Alexander Djiku has had\u00a0a one-match betting ban reduced to a suspended sentence following an appeal by his club side, FC Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was among 76 players, coaches and team officials who were cited following an investigation by the Professional Football League (LFP) for their involvement in betting during the 2020-21 season and was subsequently banned for one match.<\/p>\n<p>However, Djiku, who featured at the just-ended 2022 World Cup in Qatar\u00a0is now in line to feature against leaders Paris Saint Germain in the French Ligue 1 after an appeal by his club saw the ban reduced to a suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The experienced centre-back reportedly placed a bet of 20 euros on a La Liga match of Real Madrid on July 20, 2020.\u00a0His bet was within the framework of a partnership with a sports betting site and this was taken into account during the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The France-born defender made 14 appearances for Strasbourg in all competitions before the World Cup break.<\/p>\n<p>He has made 20 appearances and scored one goal for Ghana so far after making his debut against Mali in October 2020.<\/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=\"ONic7b_EEXU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Up-close with Elder Francis Adjei Gospel Musician - Mahyease on Adom TV (28-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ONic7b_EEXU?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 Ghana defender Alexander Djiku has had\u00a0a one-match betting ban reduced to a suspended sentence following an appeal by his club side, FC Strasbourg. The 28-year-old was among 76 players, coaches and team officials who were cited following an investigation by the Professional Football League (LFP) for their involvement in betting during the 2020-21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[715,3868,717,373,250,11039],"class_list":["post-1271006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alexander","tag-betting","tag-djiku","tag-escapes","tag-ghanas","tag-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271006","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=1271006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}