{"id":28229,"date":"2014-06-28T20:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=28229"},"modified":"2014-06-28T20:55:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T20:55:54","slug":"boateng-has-played-his-last-game-for-ghana-heldt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=28229","title":{"rendered":"Boateng has played his last game for Ghana &#8211; Heldt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gh\/teams\/germany\/schalke-04\/966\">Schalke<\/a>\u00a0general manager Horst Heldt believes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gh\/people\/ghana\/10688\/kevin-prince-boateng?ICID=TP_TST_14\">Kevin-Prince Boateng<\/a>\u00a0will never play for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gh\/teams\/ghana\/ghana\/1038?ICID=SP_TN_111\">Ghana<\/a>\u00a0again.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder was sent home from the World Cup before his team&#8217;s final group match against Portugal along with Sulley Muntari for allegedly insulting coach Kwesi Appiah &#8211; a claim he denies.<\/p>\n<p>And although Appiah has said the midfielder could return to the national team in the future, Heldt feels that Boateng has played his last game for Ghana as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen at Schalke that he is as an absolute team player,&#8221; he told\u00a0Bild.\u00a0&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine that he will run out for Ghana again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sure that this World Cup and the suspension will not burden him.\u00a0Quite the contrary, anyone who knows Boateng knows that all this will motivate him more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ghana tumbled out of the World Cup prior to the knockout stages after losing to the USA and Portugal, despite a thrilling 2-2 draw with eventual group winners Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Source: Goal.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schalke\u00a0general manager Horst Heldt believes\u00a0Kevin-Prince Boateng\u00a0will never play for\u00a0Ghana\u00a0again. The midfielder was sent home from the World Cup before his team&#8217;s final group match against Portugal along with Sulley Muntari for allegedly insulting coach Kwesi Appiah &#8211; a claim he denies. And although Appiah has said the midfielder could return to the national team in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28230,"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":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-28229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28229","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=28229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}