{"id":21873,"date":"2014-06-01T11:32:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=21873"},"modified":"2014-06-01T11:32:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:32:32","slug":"kwesi-appiah-confirms-akaminko-would-have-made-final-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=21873","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Appiah confirms Akaminko would have made final 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah is counting the absence of Jerry Akaminko from the World Cup as a big loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkey-based player landed badly in the 92nd minute of the pre-tournament friendly with the Netherlands on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p>Doctors say a broken fibula cannot heal in time for Akaminko to take part in the tournament and Kwesi Appiah feels sad for the defender.<\/p>\n<p>Citi Sports understands that the former Heart of Lions man was a shoo-in for Brazil, but for the injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate that Jerry has got to face this,\u201d Appiah told the Ghana FA\u2019s official website after the 1-0 defeat to the Dutch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the training he has done with the team we had lots of hope for the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we have to do, apart from the support we will offer him is to pray for him to come back stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final squad named, predictably, did not have Akaminko&#8217;s name in it after he was dropped. Others who did not make the 23 heading to Brazil were Jeffery Schlupp and David Accam.<\/p>\n<p>By Gary Al-Smith\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyalsmith\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @garyalsmith<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah is counting the absence of Jerry Akaminko from the World Cup as a big loss. The Turkey-based player landed badly in the 92nd minute of the pre-tournament friendly with the Netherlands on Saturday night. Doctors say a broken fibula cannot heal in time for Akaminko to take part in the tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":21874,"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":[117,1166],"tags":[118,119,115,29,3,1170,1121,1167,114],"class_list":["post-21873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd","category-transport","tag-advertisers-association-of-ghana","tag-ama","tag-armyworms","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-gma","tag-kotoko","tag-smart-watch","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873","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=21873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}