{"id":162317,"date":"2015-10-26T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T09:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=162317"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T10:32:25","slug":"hearts-of-oak-to-hire-japanese-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=162317","title":{"rendered":"Hearts of Oak to hire Japanese coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citi Sports sources can confirm that Japanese coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi is in Ghana to finish negotiations with Accra Hearts of Oak and take over the club\u2019s head coaching role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yatsuhashi touched down in Accra on Saturday and it is expected that he will hold talks with the Phobians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Japanese coach worked with ASA College in the United States of America. Kenichi Yatsuhashi landed in the country on Saturday evening and has been having discussions with Hearts of Oak in view of taking the head coach\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hearts came close to appointing Tom Strand from Medeama but there were no agreements in terms of the buyout clause in Strand\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yatsuhashi confirmed that he was preparing for his trip to Ghana earlier in the week on his Twitter handle:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also confirmed that he was on his way to Ghana via another handle:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hearts-new-coach-tweet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162318 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hearts-new-coach-tweet.png\" alt=\"hearts new coach tweet\" width=\"445\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hearts-new-coach-tweet.png 445w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hearts-new-coach-tweet-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hearts of Oak will hope for a better campaign in the coming First Capital Plus Premier League season after finishing 13th last season with 40 points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hearts-new-coach-tweet1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-162319 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hearts-new-coach-tweet1.png\" alt=\"hearts new coach tweet1\" width=\"451\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hearts-new-coach-tweet1.png 339w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hearts-new-coach-tweet1-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Citi Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi Sports sources can confirm that Japanese coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi is in Ghana to finish negotiations with Accra Hearts of Oak and take over the club\u2019s head coaching role. Yatsuhashi touched down in Accra on Saturday and it is expected that he will hold talks with the Phobians. The Japanese coach worked with ASA College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":162320,"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":[3],"class_list":["post-162317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162317","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}