{"id":271377,"date":"2016-11-25T06:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T06:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=271377"},"modified":"2016-11-25T06:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T06:19:56","slug":"schalke-04-appoints-gerald-asamoah-as-u23-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/schalke-04-appoints-gerald-asamoah-as-u23-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Schalke 04 appoints Gerald Asamoah as U23 coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghana-born German international Gerald Asamoah has been named the head coach of Schalke 04\u2019s U-23 side as he takes his career after football to another level.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old who is born to Ghanaian parents secured the job on Wednesday afternoon after a meeting with officials of the Royal Blues.<\/p>\n
Asamoah played almost his entire career at the Veltins Arena and is seen as an undisputed club legend thus the reason to hand him the job.<\/p>\n
Born in Mampong in Ghana, Asamoah rose to become one of the key players for the German national team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am therefore happy to be able to work with my club in the sporting field and to take a new course with the U23 in which I ended my career,\u201d Asamoah said<\/p>\n
He played for the German national team at the 2002 and 2006 World Cup.<\/p>\n
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By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghana-born German international Gerald Asamoah has been named the head coach of Schalke 04\u2019s U-23 side as he takes his career after football to another level. The 39-year-old who is born to Ghanaian parents secured the job on Wednesday afternoon after a meeting with officials of the Royal Blues. Asamoah played almost his entire career […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":271378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n