{"id":151532,"date":"2015-09-16T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=151532"},"modified":"2015-09-15T18:53:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T18:53:41","slug":"local-league-empty-stadia-seats-not-common-to-ghana-alone-konadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=151532","title":{"rendered":"Local league: Empty stadia seats not common to Ghana alone &#8211; Konadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34834\" class=\"yiv5102782142\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34829\">Black Stars deputy Coach Maxwell Konadu says the problem of low patronage in Ghana&#8217;s local league<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34829\">\u00a0is a continental problem but urged authorities to find immediate solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34827\" class=\"yiv5102782142\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34826\">\u201cIt\u2019s an African problem and not only in Ghana. I do not know how we are going to get the fans back but it\u2019s not only in Ghana,\u201d Konadu told Citi-Sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34737\" class=\"yiv5102782142\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34736\">The Nyantakyi led administration has come under heavy criticism for the lack of interest in the local league with many questioning his commitment towards the development of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34807\" class=\"yiv5102782142\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34806\">The final game of the season between Great Olympics and AshGold was free\u00a0to the public but turnout was a spectacular failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34791\" class=\"yiv5102782142\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34825\">\u201cEven in Egypt, South Africa and elsewhere, it is not like before but it is better elsewhere than here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34802\" class=\"yiv5102782142\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34803\">\u201cSo we have to put our resources together and ensure that the stadia is filled with the supporters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34793\" class=\"yiv5102782142\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1442240707061_34801\">The debate about the true state of the Ghana league continues to divide opinion with the GFA maintaining the league is one of the best on the continent even though fans continue to stay away from the various stadia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5102782142\">Other schools of thought have said the massive support of the English Premier league and other european leagues are contributing to lack of interest in the local league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5102782142\">The GFA is even toying with idea of lobbying\u00a0parliament to ban free-to-air showing of the various European leagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5102782142\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5102782142\">By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars deputy Coach Maxwell Konadu says the problem of low patronage in Ghana&#8217;s local league\u00a0is a continental problem but urged authorities to find immediate solutions. \u201cIt\u2019s an African problem and not only in Ghana. I do not know how we are going to get the fans back but it\u2019s not only in Ghana,\u201d Konadu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":151535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-151532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}