{"id":41607,"date":"2014-08-25T08:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=41607"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:02:16","slug":"kotoko-defender-adama-joins-guineas-kaloum-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=41607","title":{"rendered":"Kotoko defender Adama joins Guinea&#8217;s Kaloum Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Porcupine Warriors defender has signed for a Guinea top-flight side after the expiration of his contract<\/p>\n<p>Former Asante Kotoko left-back Ben Adama Bahn has officially signed for Conakry-based club AS Kaloum Stars in a one year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Ivorian international joined Asante Kotoko in 2012 and opted to take a new challenge after his contract ended on August 1, despite persuasion by the Kotoko management to extend it.<\/p>\n<p>Adama believe it is time to take up a new challenge in a different environment after winning almost every trophy in the west African country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKotoko is a big team with great history but I think I&#8217;ve to move on to a different country for a different challenge,&#8221; Adama told Kumasi-based\u00a0<em>Fox FM<\/em>. \u201cThey wanted to sign me on a long term but I opted for one year, it wasn&#8217;t easy though but after pulling some strings everything went through and I&#8217;m very happy now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t know they have been monitoring me in the Ghana Premier League, it was a surprise to me when the club&#8217;s management disclosed a lot about me and my former team [Kotoko].The money is also good so I think all will be well here,\u201d Adama said.<\/p>\n<p>He won two Ghana top-flight league titles and one FA Cup title with Asante Kotoko.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Goal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Porcupine Warriors defender has signed for a Guinea top-flight side after the expiration of his contract Former Asante Kotoko left-back Ben Adama Bahn has officially signed for Conakry-based club AS Kaloum Stars in a one year deal. The 31-year-old Ivorian international joined Asante Kotoko in 2012 and opted to take a new challenge after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":41617,"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-41607","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\/41607","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=41607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}