{"id":247168,"date":"2026-04-15T19:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsworldghana.com\/?p=247168"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:03:25","slug":"ghana-premier-league-not-as-competitive-as-before-former-hearts-of-oak-midfielder-frederick-ansah-botchway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/2026\/04\/15\/ghana-premier-league-not-as-competitive-as-before-former-hearts-of-oak-midfielder-frederick-ansah-botchway\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ghana Premier League not as competitive as before&#8221; &#8211; Former Hearts of Oak midfielder Frederick Ansah Botchway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Hearts of Oak midfielder Frederick Ansah Botchway has expressed concern over the declining competitiveness of the Ghana Premier League, suggesting that standards have dropped compared to previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing from his playing experience, Botchway compared the current state of the Ghanaian top flight with the Zimbabwean league, where he believes the level of competition remains strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCurrently, I think their league is there. It is very, very good, and the competition is there,\u201d he told GhanaWeb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflecting on his time at Hearts of Oak, the midfielder noted that the league was far more competitive during his playing days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLike my time when I was in Hearts of Oak, the competition was there, the level was high. Compared to them, it\u2019s okay, but my time in Hearts of Oak, the competition was very high compared to now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botchway enjoyed a successful spell with Hearts of Oak, winning the Ghana Premier League title, two FA Cups, as well as the Super Cup and President\u2019s Cup under coach Samuel Boadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Hearts of Oak midfielder Frederick Ansah Botchway has expressed concern over the declining competitiveness of the Ghana Premier League,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,14,23],"class_list":["post-247168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-stories","tag-frederick-ansah-botchway","tag-ghana-football","tag-ghana-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}