{"id":409534,"date":"2018-03-13T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409534"},"modified":"2018-03-13T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:28:22","slug":"black-queens-rewarded-32000-wafu-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409534","title":{"rendered":"Black Queens to be rewarded with $32,000 after WAFU triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has announced a reward package of $32,000 for the players of Ghana\u2019s female national team, the Black Queens, for winning the WAFU Zone B tournament held in Cote d\u2019Ivoire last month.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo\u2019s team defeated host Cote d\u2019Ivoire 1-0 in the final to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the \u2018Meet the Press\u2019 session in Accra on Tuesday; Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah said the financial package was government\u2019s compensation for a good job done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry has approved $32,000 for our Queens and from here, the chief accountant will pay their money to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate their hard work and this is our way of saying thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will host the 2018 Women\u2019s AFCON and the tournament formed part of preparations for the competition which kicks off in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Fentuo Tahiru\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has announced a reward package of $32,000 for the players of Ghana\u2019s female national team, the Black Queens, for winning the WAFU Zone B tournament held in Cote d\u2019Ivoire last month. Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo\u2019s team defeated host Cote d\u2019Ivoire 1-0 in the final to secure the victory. Speaking at the \u2018Meet the Press\u2019 session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":409535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1479,9667],"class_list":["post-409534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-queens","tag-wafu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409534","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=409534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}