{"id":213862,"date":"2016-05-12T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=213862"},"modified":"2016-05-12T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:05:08","slug":"memorial-squash-championship-held-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=213862","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Squash championship held in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2621\" class=\"yiv8327453645x_MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2620\">Individual brilliance and good sportsmanship characterized this year\u2019s Nana Awuah Darko-Apem Memorial Squash championship at the Accra Polo Club on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2619\" class=\"yiv8327453645x_MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2618\">Themed \u2018Healthy mind in healthy body\u2019, the well-attended competition drew staff of the Vanguard Group who battled for supremacy in other disciplines like draught, Ludo apart from the squash competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2612\" class=\"yiv8327453645x_MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2611\">Held in <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2617\">memory of Nana Awuah-Darko Ampem I, former chairman of Ghana Squash Association,<\/span> it was the Accra <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2610\">\u00a0Polo Club squash team \u00a0that triumphed \u00a0over\u00a0 Cocobod in the fiercely contested final.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2632\" class=\"yiv8327453645x_MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2631\">For their efforts, players and teams that excelled from the Vanguard Group comprising \u00a0United Pension Trust, Vanguard Life Assurance, ICS Securities, Online Computer Solutions, City International Limited, Nkosuo Micro Finance Limited,\u00a0 Nationwide\u00a0 Mutual Health, Premium Reality,\u00a0 Health Net Medical Centre\u00a0 and M\/G Insurance Brokers were decorated with glittering medals, trophies and special cash prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8327453645x_MsoNormal\">Founder of the United Pension Trustees Limited Harold Awuah Darko Jnr \u00a0revealed that \u00a0besides playing it in honour of Nana Awuah-Darko Ampem, it formed part of his\u00a0 outfit\u2019s \u00a0decision to revive the sport in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8327453645x_MsoNormal\">He expressed gross satisfaction about the large turn out and urged the youth to attach seriousness to the sport which dominated in the 70\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463073358756_2641\" class=\"yiv8327453645x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8327453645x_MsoNormal\">Source: United Pension Trustees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual brilliance and good sportsmanship characterized this year\u2019s Nana Awuah Darko-Apem Memorial Squash championship at the Accra Polo Club on Saturday. Themed \u2018Healthy mind in healthy body\u2019, the well-attended competition drew staff of the Vanguard Group who battled for supremacy in other disciplines like draught, Ludo apart from the squash competition. Held in memory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213862","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=213862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}