{"id":214263,"date":"2025-11-20T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-former-ghana-football-legends-pay-courtesy-call-on-speaker-of-parliament\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:25:38","slug":"ghana-former-ghana-football-legends-pay-courtesy-call-on-speaker-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-former-ghana-football-legends-pay-courtesy-call-on-speaker-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Former Ghana Football Legends Pay Courtesy Call On Speaker of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A delegation of former Ghana football legends on Tuesday paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, to express gratitude for his support during the recent Democracy Cup celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Led by ex-Hearts of Oak captain Amankwa Mireku, the group conveyed its appreciation for the Speaker&#8217;s continued backing of initiatives honouring Ghana&#8217;s football heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Speaker Bagbin highlighted football&#8217;s growing economic significance, noting that the sport is no longer&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511200053.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>A delegation of former Ghana football legends on Tuesday paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, to express gratitude for his support during the recent Democracy Cup celebrations. Led by ex-Hearts of Oak captain Amankwa Mireku, the group conveyed its appreciation for the Speaker&#8217;s continued backing of initiatives honouring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214264,"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":[258,256,6880,7224,3299,4508,4509,17463,257,2412,9105,254,9632],"class_list":["post-214263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-courtesy","tag-football","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-legends","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-pay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker"],"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\/214263","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=214263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}