{"id":292902,"date":"2017-02-10T19:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=292902"},"modified":"2017-02-10T19:35:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:35:41","slug":"drogba-pays-surprise-visit-to-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=292902","title":{"rendered":"Drogba pays surprise visit to Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea and Ivory Coast star, Didier Drogba, paid a surprise visit to Ghana&#8217;s President Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House today [Friday], February 10, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo posted a photo of himself and the two-time African Footballer of the Year at the Flagstaff House on Facebook on Friday evening, but did not explain what the purpose of the visit was.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo, who speaks very fluent french, is believed to have held private discussions with the football legend.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnakufoaddo%2Fposts%2F10155002560474836%3A0&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"442\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drogba was capped 104 times Ivory Coast between 2002 and 2014, scoring 65 goals, and is the nation&#8217;s all-time top goalscorer with 65 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the Black Stars in 2016, he led the Ivory Coast to the\u00a02006 FIFA World Cup, their first appearance in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the Ivory Coast teams that reached the final of the\u00a0Africa Cup of Nations\u00a0in\u00a02006\u00a0and\u00a02012, only to beaten on penalties on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, Drogba scored 157 goals in 341 appearances for Chelsea in his first spell at the club, winning the UEFA Champions League with the London club in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to the club for a year in 2014 and scored seven goals in 40 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea and Ivory Coast star, Didier Drogba, paid a surprise visit to Ghana&#8217;s President Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House today [Friday], February 10, 2017. President Akufo-Addo posted a photo of himself and the two-time African Footballer of the Year at the Flagstaff House on Facebook on Friday evening, but did not explain what the [&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":[11],"tags":[2804,8,3930,3,156,2682,1024],"class_list":["post-292902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-2804","tag-akufo-addo","tag-drogba","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-addo","tag-president","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292902","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=292902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}