{"id":764821,"date":"2022-01-24T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/gfa-president-kurt-okraku-should-have-apologized\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:19:08","slug":"gfa-president-kurt-okraku-should-have-apologized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/gfa-president-kurt-okraku-should-have-apologized\/","title":{"rendered":"GFA president Kurt Okraku should have apologized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday, 24 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-24<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/59252591.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sports broadcaster, Dan Kwaku Yeboah\" title=\"Sports broadcaster, Dan Kwaku Yeboah\" width=\"295\" height=\"164\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Sports broadcaster, Dan Kwaku Yeboah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>Black Stars knocked out of AFCON 2021<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ghana to face Nigeria in 2022 World Cup Qualifiers Playoff<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Okraku refuses to apologize after AFCON 2021 exit<\/p>\n<p>The former Ghana Football Association Normalization Committee Communications Director, Dan Kwaku Yeboah, believes it would have been prudent if GFA president, Kurt Okraku had apologized for Ghana\u2019s flop at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Okraku in an interview with Asempa FM on January 19, 2022 a day after Ghana\u2019s exit at the AFCON 2021 refused to apologize when the presenter asked if he was remorseful. <\/p>\n<p>But in a sharp response, Dan Kwaku Yeboah retorted that the GFA president ought to have apologize especially after raising the expectation of the country. <\/p>\n<p>He noted that Kurt Okraku and the GFA Executive Committee did not adhere to advise from many and decided on their own. <\/p>\n<p>When I heard Kurt\u2019s voice, I was disappointed because for someone who is a trained journalist you should be able to convince people with a nice apology.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing which he got it right was taking responsibility, the next was to apologize. You\u2019ve raised the expectations of people as a leader. We all wanted Ghana to win but as a leader he thought his approach was right but it turned out bad,\u201d Dan Kwaku Yeboah stated.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThe best thing is to say sorry because there were other alternatives that people suggested but because you are the leader, your approach should be respected and people did so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Monday, 24 January 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2022-01-24 Sports broadcaster, Dan Kwaku Yeboah Black Stars knocked out of AFCON 2021 Ghana to face Nigeria in 2022 World Cup Qualifiers Playoff Kurt Okraku refuses to apologize after AFCON 2021 exit The former Ghana Football Association Normalization Committee Communications Director, Dan Kwaku Yeboah, believes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3029,1615,1603,2557,275],"class_list":["post-764821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apologized","tag-gfa","tag-kurt","tag-okraku","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764821","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=764821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}