{"id":4902,"date":"2019-08-15T10:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:33:42","slug":"yacouba-finally-arrives-in-kumasi-set-to-sign-new-contract-with-kotoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/15\/yacouba-finally-arrives-in-kumasi-set-to-sign-new-contract-with-kotoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacouba Finally Arrives In Kumasi; Set To Sign New Contract With Kotoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asante Kotoko forward Sogne Yacouba has arrived in Kumasi to meet management of the club after a prolonged stay in his country following the return of the club to competitive football.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker spent 8 weeks in his native country Burkina Faso, despite the team returning to camp and preparing for continental assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Yacouba, who was on the verge of leaving the club returns to meet management of the Porcupine Warriors to discuss his future.<\/p>\n<p>Several clubs including Al Hilal of Sudan, who were reported to have made an official bid for the player were interested in the deadly goal poacher.<\/p>\n<p>The striker&#8217;s relationship with the club went bad after Asante Kotoko rejected offers from other clubs for the 27-year old.<\/p>\n<p>Yacouba missed the Porcupine Warriors first competitive game of the season in the CAF Champions League against Kano Pillars.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if he will train with the club ahead of the second leg game against the Nigerians in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source: ghanasoccernet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asante Kotoko forward Sogne Yacouba has arrived in Kumasi to meet management of the club after a prolonged stay in his country following the return of the club to competitive football. The attacker spent 8 weeks in his native country Burkina Faso, despite the team returning to camp and preparing for continental assignment. Yacouba, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[1084,7953,960,1085,1911,5247,3577,6394,517,4331,12792,10543,6730,9616,3954,594],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-asante-kotoko","tag-attacker","tag-burkina-faso","tag-caf","tag-champions-league","tag-football","tag-future","tag-ghanasoccernet","tag-kotoko","tag-kumasi","tag-new-contract","tag-nigerians","tag-sudan","tag-train","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52019,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/52019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}