{"id":207403,"date":"2025-09-17T06:53:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-hohoe-united-add-to-hearts-opening-day-misery\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:53:52","slug":"ghana-hohoe-united-add-to-hearts-opening-day-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-hohoe-united-add-to-hearts-opening-day-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Hohoe United Add to Hearts&#8217; Opening Day Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Accra Hearts of Oak began their quest for their 22nd Ghana Premier League (GPL) title with a pulsating goalless draw with debutant, Hohoe United, at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The clash heralded the start of the 2025\/26 league season. In attendance was the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku, who took the ceremonial kick-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Highly motivated going into the game on the back of their offseason form, the Phobians were favoured to start the season&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509150667.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra Hearts of Oak began their quest for their 22nd Ghana Premier League (GPL) title with a pulsating goalless draw with debutant, Hohoe United, at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday. The clash heralded the start of the 2025\/26 league season. In attendance was the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Kurt Edwin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[8272,258,256,7165,4508,4509,16547,32707,12230,257,11416,254,7866],"class_list":["post-207403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-add","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hearts","tag-hohoe","tag-misery","tag-news","tag-opening","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}