{"id":37296,"date":"2014-08-06T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=37296"},"modified":"2014-08-06T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T09:02:52","slug":"abdul-aziz-joins-raft-of-kotoko-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=37296","title":{"rendered":"Abdul Aziz joins raft of Kotoko departures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian outfit Smouha have signed Ghanaian forward Abdul Aziz Yusif from reigning Ghana Premier League champions Kumasi Asante Kotoko in a 3 year deal, speculated to be in the region of $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Aziz played an integral part during Kotoko\u2019s sensational double last season where he featured in 19 games and scored an impressive 7 goals to ensure the Kumasi based club won both the FA cup and league title.<\/p>\n<p>His departure from Kumasi Asante Kotoko adds up to the soaring number of players who have already left the club ahead of their upcoming 2014\/15 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Jordan Opoku and Seidu Bancey have been sold while veteran keeper Soulama Abdoulaye has been released by the club after both parties reached a mutual agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in another interesting twist, Abdul Aziz\u2019s move to Smouha could see him partnering former Asante Kotoko teammate, Seidu Bancy, who also joined the club earlier in July.<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenEpton_\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @BenEpton_<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!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');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian outfit Smouha have signed Ghanaian forward Abdul Aziz Yusif from reigning Ghana Premier League champions Kumasi Asante Kotoko in a 3 year deal, speculated to be in the region of $150,000. Abdul Aziz played an integral part during Kotoko\u2019s sensational double last season where he featured in 19 games and scored an impressive 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37297,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-37296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296","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=37296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}