{"id":736192,"date":"2022-01-05T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/sad-news-as-hearts-of-oak-midfielder-emmanuel-nettey-joins-iraq-division-1-side-duhok-sc\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:24:17","slug":"sad-news-as-hearts-of-oak-midfielder-emmanuel-nettey-joins-iraq-division-1-side-duhok-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/sad-news-as-hearts-of-oak-midfielder-emmanuel-nettey-joins-iraq-division-1-side-duhok-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"SAD News As Hearts of Oak Midfielder, Emmanuel Nettey Joins Iraq Division 1 side Duhok SC \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_50\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h2 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><strong>Hearts of Oak midfielder Emmanuel Nettey has successfully completed a move to Iraq division one side Duhok SC.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Nettey is reported to have joined the Asian club as a free agent following the expiration of his contract with Hearts on December 31, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">The 30-year-old joined the Phobians from Inter Allies in 2019 and has been one of the club\u2019s key players in the last three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">He played an instrumental role as Samuel Boadu\u2019s side ended their 12-year trophy drought by winning the league and FA Cup double last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Nettey was also a mainstay in the Hearts side that participated in the early stages of the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederations Cup this term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">The midfielder will hope to use his experience to help Duhok SC in their bid to qualify to the Iraqi Premier League, having finished seventh in the division one league last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Meanwhile, Nettey is the second player to depart Hearts in the last few days after Raddy Ovouka\u2019s imminent transfer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">The FAQs is, if a player of Emmanuel Nettey caliber could quit almighty Hearts of Oak to play in the Iraq league, what it means is that Ghana\u2019s football has no future!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Thus, if Hearts of Oak cannot afford to pay Emmanuel Nettey a higher amount than the Iraq football team, it raises concern about the state of Ghana Football.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wish Emmanuel Nettey well at Duhok Sports in Iraq after quitting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeartsOfOakGH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HeartsOfOakGH<\/a>. I can understand fans why fans are upset but he is 30years old and won&#8217;tearn an improved contract. He has served his time here. Time to look after himself and family.  Harsh reality <br \/>\ud83d\udcf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dadaoliseh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dadaoliseh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z4h4co7tfI\">pic.twitter.com\/Z4h4co7tfI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Godfred Akoto Boafo (@eastsportsman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eastsportsman\/status\/1478679446450282497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '344897979702391');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearts of Oak midfielder Emmanuel Nettey has successfully completed a move to Iraq division one side Duhok SC. &#8211; &#8211; \u00a0 Nettey is reported to have joined the Asian club as a free agent following the expiration of his contract with Hearts on December 31, 2021. \u00a0 The 30-year-old joined the Phobians from Inter Allies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736192","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=736192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}