{"id":254502,"date":"2016-10-03T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254502"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:58:10","slug":"i-wouldve-been-a-better-player-with-education-odartey-lamptey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254502","title":{"rendered":"I would&#8217;ve been a better player with education &#8211; Odartey Lamptey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghana international, Nii Odartey Lamptey has revealed he would have been a better footballer and navigated more pitfalls better had he been formally educated.<\/p>\n<article class=\"post-listing post-62740 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-black-stars category-news tag-black-stars tag-nii-odartey-lamptey\">\n<div class=\"post-inner\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The former PSV Eindhoven forward exploded and lost his spark at the most crucial point in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Lamptey was the first and only to be named by Brazilian Pele as his natural successor in greatness, and he was set on a path of promised glory, but also one of confusion and suffering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-9165885892957120419gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\">He reveals in an interview with <strong>Citi Sports<\/strong> that a lack of formal education cost him a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-9165885892957120419gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\">\u201cThere were a lot of things I did back then that I would not have done now. \u00a0There were some signings I did because I was not that educated it did not help and I am being very frank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-9165885892957120419gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\">\u201cThere made me play in so many teams but if I knew I would just have played in some one of two clubs.\u00a0But that is life I get it when sometimes I think about it but I am happy now and very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-9165885892957120419gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-9165885892957120419gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\">By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghana international, Nii Odartey Lamptey has revealed he would have been a better footballer and navigated more pitfalls better had he been formally educated. The former PSV Eindhoven forward exploded and lost his spark at the most crucial point in his career. Lamptey was the first and only to be named by Brazilian Pele [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":254507,"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-254502","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\/254502","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=254502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}