{"id":74942,"date":"2014-12-17T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=74942"},"modified":"2014-12-17T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:36:24","slug":"kwesi-appiah-unveiled-coach-sudanese-club-khartoum-watan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=74942","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Appiah unveiled as coach of Sudanese club Khartoum Watan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Former head coach of the Black Stars Kwesi Appiah has formally been unveiled as the new boss of Sudanese top-flight side, Khartoum Watan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Appiah, has been jobless since <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/09\/12\/gfa-confirms-kwesi-appiahs-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>he was \u00a0was sacked in September<\/strong><\/span><\/a> after leading the Black Stars to fourth place at the 2013 AFCON and a first round exit at the World Cup in Brazil in his two years in charge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/khartoum-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35305 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/khartoum-1.jpg\" alt=\"khartoum (1)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;hL1rITEkdpuCWVeikpF7DyIholRtoMnx&#8221;]He has also previously been in charge of Ghana&#8217;s under 23 national team and was assistant coach of the Black Stars before landing the top job in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Appiah has named former coach of Ghanaian premier league club\u00a0Medeama SC head, Prince Owusu as his assistant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35304 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/capi1.png\" alt=\"capi1\" width=\"308\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Khartoum Watan finished fourth in the Sudanese\u00a0top-flight\u00a0last season, 24 points behind winners\u00a0Al Hilal and Appiah will hope to guide hhis new team to the top of a league which has largely been dominated by Al Hilal and <a style=\"color: black;\" title=\"Al Merreikh\" href=\"http:\/\/gh.soccerway.com\/teams\/sudan\/al-marreekh-omdurman\/8286\/\">Al Merreikh<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former head coach of the Black Stars Kwesi Appiah has formally been unveiled as the new boss of Sudanese top-flight side, Khartoum Watan. Appiah, has been jobless since he was \u00a0was sacked in September after leading the Black Stars to fourth place at the 2013 AFCON and a first round exit at the World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":74943,"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":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-74942","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\/74942","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}