{"id":211365,"date":"2016-05-04T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T09:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=211365"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T09:31:38","slug":"mahama-commissions-new-cape-coast-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=211365","title":{"rendered":"Mahama commissions new Cape Coast Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"name post-title entry-title\">President John Dramani Mahama commissioned the new Cape Coast Stadium on Tuesday for official use.<\/p>\n<article class=\"post-listing post-57141 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-top-story tag-cape-coast-stadium tag-president-mahama\">\n<div class=\"post-inner\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The stadium, which sits 16,000 people, was constructed by Chinese firm Jiang Xi International Corporation and was fully financed by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Enjoying a game of table tennis in the all new Cape Coast Stadium this afternoon. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TransformingGhana?src=hash\">#TransformingGhana<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ltmWW7kYV6\">pic.twitter.com\/ltmWW7kYV6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDMahama\/status\/727595046405591040\">May 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Construction was completed earlier this year and following its official opening, the ground will now be available to the general public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mahama-commsions-Cape-Coast-Stadium3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57142 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mahama-commsions-Cape-Coast-Stadium3.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mahama-commsions-Cape-Coast-Stadium3.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mahama-commsions-Cape-Coast-Stadium3-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"(Image credit: Ameyaw Debrah)\" width=\"524\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Mahama opened the ground with Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Sun Baohong.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium has a tennis court, a gymnasium, an eight-lane running track, two basketball courts, handball courts, halls for table tennis and accommodation for athletes.<\/p>\n<p>After the commissioning, the President was taken round the facility and he even helped himself to a game of table tennis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57144\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mahama-commsions-Cape-Coast-Stadium1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57144\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mahama-commsions-Cape-Coast-Stadium1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mahama-commsions-Cape-Coast-Stadium1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Mahama-commsions-Cape-Coast-Stadium1-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"President Mahama having a chat with some para athletes on the basketball court (Image credit: Ameyaw Debrah)\" width=\"527\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Mahama having a chat with some para athletes on the basketball court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Already, the ground has been chosen to host the 2016 MTN FA Cup final and there are some indications that the 2017 AFCON qualifier between Ghana and Rwanda in September will be played there.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/div>\n<p>Photo Credit: Ameyaw Debrah<\/p>\n<p>By: Citi Sports Desk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama commissioned the new Cape Coast Stadium on Tuesday for official use. The stadium, which sits 16,000 people, was constructed by Chinese firm Jiang Xi International Corporation and was fully financed by the Chinese government. Enjoying a game of table tennis in the all new Cape Coast Stadium this afternoon. #TransformingGhana pic.twitter.com\/ltmWW7kYV6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":211369,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211365","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}