{"id":157704,"date":"2015-10-06T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=157704"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:31:19","slug":"sammy-kuffour-appeals-for-collective-effort-to-revive-kotoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=157704","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Kuffour appeals for collective effort to revive Kotoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected President of Asante Kotoko, Samuel Osei Kuffour, believes his wealth of experience and network in football will bring innovation and progress to the Kumasi based club.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;gYO5lZv04cXxEnvZbyGeNsfKbgqRAEmI&#8221;]Kuffour has thus made a passionate appeal to the fans of the club to show their commitment and support for the team as he takes over to lead the club.<\/p>\n<p>The former Black Stars and Bayern Munich defender is expected to be officially unveiled by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II as the Club\u2019s President at a gathering at the Manhyia Palace on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Sammy-Otumfuor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-157706 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Sammy-Otumfuor.jpg\" alt=\"Sammy Otumfuor\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before his appointment as Kotoko President, Kuffour served as a board member under the Opoku Nti led administration.<\/p>\n<p>He has been handed the mandate to hand pick his own management team and board which according to reports will include former Communications Director of the club, Kwame Baah Nuako, and former Black Stars player, Tony Baffoe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy influence says a lot and I will bring the experience that I acquired outside on board so that we can all enjoy and share in my ideas. \u201cYou need a good team around because this is not about Sammy Kuffour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking this job as Kotoko President isn\u2019t about me, it is about the fans, the people who pay one cedi to come watch Kotoko and those that cry when we lose matches,\u201d he revealed in an interview with Accra based Metro TV.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Benjamin Nketsia\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected President of Asante Kotoko, Samuel Osei Kuffour, believes his wealth of experience and network in football will bring innovation and progress to the Kumasi based club. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;gYO5lZv04cXxEnvZbyGeNsfKbgqRAEmI&#8221;]Kuffour has thus made a passionate appeal to the fans of the club to show their commitment and support for the team as he takes over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":157708,"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],"class_list":["post-157704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157704","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}