{"id":4014,"date":"2024-08-29T02:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2024-08-29T02:24:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T02:24:22","slug":"parliament-to-support-asante-kotokos-trip-to-the-us-for-dc-united-match-says-speaker-alban-sumana-bagbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=4014","title":{"rendered":"Parliament to support Asante Kotoko&#8217;s trip to the US for DC United match, says Speaker Alban Sumana Bagbin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/12317546.295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4015\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban Sumana Bagbin has said Parliament will support Asante Kotoko in their match against DC United in the United States of America (USA) next year.<br><br>The Speaker said he had instructed his team to find ways of raising funds from corporate bodies to support the club\u2019s participation in the match.<br><br>Asante Kotoko will play DC United on October 12, 2024, in the USA, as part of their prize for winning the maiden edition of the Democracy Cup match.<br><br>Speaker Bagbin made these known during a review meeting with the organisers of the match, Primeval Media, last week.<br><br>According to the Speaker, Parliament, as initiators of the Democracy Cup match, was obliged to see Kotoko play DC United in the USA.<br><br>The Speaker said football had now become a unique and powerful tool for promoting and developing countries, adding that the United Kingdom had over the years used it effectively to their advantage.<br><br>He added that the venue of the match had a lot of historical importance that must be tapped for the benefit of the two countries.<br><br>Mr. Samuel Opoku Nti, who represented Asante Kotoko at the meeting, expressed appreciation to the Speaker for the initiative.<br><br>He said the match against DC United would give his club and players the opportunity to exhibit their talents in the USA.<br><br>\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity we cherish, and we will do our best when the time comes.<br><br>\u201cThis is the first time we will be playing in the USA and the entire team is looking forward to that,\u201d he added.<br><br>He called on the Speaker to institute measures that would ensure the sustainability of the competition, which would henceforth be an annual event.<br><br>Accra Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko played the first-ever Democracy Cup initiated by the Parliament of Ghana.<br><br>Kotoko emerged winners with a 2-1 victory over Hearts to lift the maiden trophy at the Accra Sports Stadium.<br><br>The Democracy Cup match was part of the activities marking 30 years of Ghana\u2019s parliamentary democracy.<br><br>The maiden edition was held on July 17, at the Accra Sports Stadium between Accra Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban Sumana Bagbin has said Parliament will support Asante Kotoko in their match against DC United in the United States of America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}