{"id":995814,"date":"2022-02-18T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/18\/checkout-photos-of-girl-who-hoisted-can-2008-trophy-all-grown-up\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T10:39:52","slug":"checkout-photos-of-girl-who-hoisted-can-2008-trophy-all-grown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/18\/checkout-photos-of-girl-who-hoisted-can-2008-trophy-all-grown-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkout photos of girl who hoisted CAN 2008 trophy all grown up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"662\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mimi-4.png\"   alt=\"Twitter (Saddick Adams)\" title=\"Mimi Boateng\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The eight-year-old girl, who held the trophy during the opening ceremony of the\u00a02008 Africa Cup of Nations\u00a0in Ghana, has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The picture of the little girl, identified as Mimi Boateng, who was carried in a palanquin, has been going viral for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, many had wondered where the little girl was after grabbing the spotlight. It has been revealed after she reacted to a story from Pulse Ghana.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, 14 years after the tournament she is currently studying abroad and celebrated her 21st birthday last month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Despite efforts from the Black Stars to claim the title for the fifth time, they were slugged down in a 1-0 defeat in the semi finals of the tournament by Cameroon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EfpLY-EXoAAag8r\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Mimi Boateng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ghana, however, went on to finish third after beating Ivory Coast in the third-place playoffs, while Egypt beat Cameroon in the final to be crowned champions.<\/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=\"kHR2IuqAR_g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minority&#039;s Rejection of E-Levy Is A Fight For Ghana&#039;s Democracy - Adom TV (17-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kHR2IuqAR_g?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>The eight-year-old girl, who held the trophy during the opening ceremony of the\u00a02008 Africa Cup of Nations\u00a0in Ghana, has been revealed. The picture of the little girl, identified as Mimi Boateng, who was carried in a palanquin, has been going viral for several years. Since then, many had wondered where the little girl was after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":995815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2013,3678,5222,5223,809,1150],"class_list":["post-995814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-checkout","tag-grown","tag-hoisted","tag-photos","tag-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995814","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=995814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}