{"id":19434,"date":"2014-05-19T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2014-05-19T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:52:32","slug":"drogba-donates-1-million-euros-to-turkish-disaster-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=19434","title":{"rendered":"Drogba donates 1 million euros to Turkish disaster victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/teams\/turkey\/574\/galatasaray?ICID=AR_TN_54\">Galatasaray<\/a>\u00a0attacker\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/people\/c%C3%B4te-divoire\/497\/didier-drogba?ICID=CP_574\">Didier Drogba<\/a>\u00a0has donated \u20ac1 million to the families of the victims of the mining disaster in Soma, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The Istanbul giants&#8217; players wore helmets ahead of their league game against Kayseri Erciyesspor at the weekend to show their support and the Cote d&#8217;Ivoire international has gone one step further in his role as U.N. ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a U.N. ambassador of goodwill and I will do all that I can to help the people in Soma,&#8221; Drogba told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I don\u2019t want anyone to use my name. I\u2019m not someone who will promote himself in such issues. I don\u2019t need this sort of a self-promotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On May 13 an explosion at a coal mine in Soma, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 301 people were killed in what was the worst mine disaster in Turkey&#8217;s history<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Goal.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatasaray\u00a0attacker\u00a0Didier Drogba\u00a0has donated \u20ac1 million to the families of the victims of the mining disaster in Soma, Turkey. The Istanbul giants&#8217; players wore helmets ahead of their league game against Kayseri Erciyesspor at the weekend to show their support and the Cote d&#8217;Ivoire international has gone one step further in his role as U.N. ambassador. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19435,"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":[694,29,239,3],"class_list":["post-19434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-avnash-company","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-edward-bawa","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}