{"id":29262,"date":"2014-07-02T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=29262"},"modified":"2014-07-02T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:23:06","slug":"boateng-no-longer-in-my-plans-kwesi-appiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=29262","title":{"rendered":"Boateng no longer in my plans &#8211; Kwesi Appiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coach of the Black Stars, Kwesi Appiah, has told reporters that Kevin Prince Boateng is no longer in his plans for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Appiah, speaking at a press conference to address the performance of the Black Stars at the World Cup in Brazil, stated that \u201che is now concentrating on the players who are disciplined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shalke midfielder, Boateng, was suspended from the Black Stars and sacked from the team\u2019s camp in Brazil for indisclipine.<\/p>\n<p>The player, allegedly, verbally insulted the coach during the team\u2019s training session in Maceio.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Appiah told reporters that it was \u201cimportant to instill disclipline into the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that in doing that \u201degos had to be managed, but if it becomes constant and is a threat to the team,\u201d changes had to be made.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he was now \u201cfocusing on the disciplined players who ant to kill themselves for the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This announcement most likely spells the end of\u00a0 a troubled international career for Boateng who had only recently returned to the team after his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coach of the Black Stars, Kwesi Appiah, has told reporters that Kevin Prince Boateng is no longer in his plans for the team. Appiah, speaking at a press conference to address the performance of the Black Stars at the World Cup in Brazil, stated that \u201che is now concentrating on the players who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":26537,"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-29262","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\/29262","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}