{"id":1271941,"date":"2022-12-31T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T03:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/peles-visit-to-ghana-in-1969\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T03:45:17","slug":"peles-visit-to-ghana-in-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/peles-visit-to-ghana-in-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"Pele\u2019s visit to Ghana in 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"626\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image_2022-12-30_143907546-696x626.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"image_2022-12-30_143907546\"\/><\/div>\n<p>On the 6th February 1969, Accra Hearts of Oak were held to a 2-2 drawn game by a Pele-led Santos FC of Brazil in an international friendly at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Striker Abeka Ankrah opened the scoring in the 27th minute of the game however Edson Arantes do Nascimento known as Pel\u00e9 struck to pull the guests level before the break.<\/p>\n<p>Not in the temperament to be beaten, Ghana\u2019s own \u201cPele\u201d Amusa Gbadamoshie, re-established Hearts\u2019 lead in the subsequent half, however, midfielder Edu earned the incomparable Brazilian side a meriting draw.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/George-Alhassan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"1043\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Accra Hearts of Oak were denied a piece of history by Referee George Lamptey and his assistant, who flagged wrongly for offside, when George \u201cGa Mantse\u201d Alhassan had prodded home to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the draw, Accra Hearts of Oak still wrote their names in the history books by holding the giants, Santos FC from Brazil to a drawn game.<\/p>\n<p>Santos FC had gone on a tour of Africa in 1969, led by the player, who would become one of the greatest ever to play the beautiful game, Pele.<\/p>\n<p>Accra Hearts of Oak were in their 8th year without the league title when they welcomed the mighty Brazilian side, Santos FC that had dominated the Brazilian league, winning the title five consecutive years, and even became the first side to complete a quadruple.<\/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=\"SJ6WK55pp7U\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obuasi Market Fire: Traders call for setting up fire station in the market (30-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJ6WK55pp7U?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>On the 6th February 1969, Accra Hearts of Oak were held to a 2-2 drawn game by a Pele-led Santos FC of Brazil in an international friendly at the Accra Sports Stadium. Striker Abeka Ankrah opened the scoring in the 27th minute of the game however Edson Arantes do Nascimento known as Pel\u00e9 struck to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,17111,2240],"class_list":["post-1271941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ghana","tag-peles","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271941","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=1271941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}