{"id":116394,"date":"2025-08-28T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/116394\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:22:10","slug":"my-mom-banned-me-from-playing-football-over-juju-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/116394\/","title":{"rendered":"My mom banned me from playing football over juju worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/television\/news\/Sports-Check-with-Ali-Jarrah-The-injury-that-ended-a-golden-dream-134819\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/31677735.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Jarrah is a former player of the Black Starlets\" title=\"Ali Jarrah is a former player of the Black Starlets\" width=\"295\" height=\"158\" \/> play video<\/a>Ali Jarrah is a former player of the Black Starlets<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Former Ghana U-17 goalkeeper, Ali Jarah has revealed that his late mother was against his decision to pursue a career in football.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ali Jarah, his mother was against him playing football because of the use of juju and other spiritual means to secure the three points or trophy in the game.<\/p>\n<p>He made this revelation in an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb&#8217;s Frank Kamal Acheampong on Sports Check detailing the ordeal he went through when he became paralyzed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom was late then but she told me not to play football because juju is part,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Ali-Jarra-The-injury-that-stole-a-nation-s-goalkeeping-hope-1993920\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Jarra: The injury that stole a nation\u2019s goalkeeping hope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also continued that \u201cBut my dad fully supported it. He knew if it wasn\u2019t horse racing, it will be football. Everyone in the family was happy for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, watch the new episode of Sports Check with Ali Jarrah below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"play videoAli Jarrah is a former player of the Black Starlets Former Ghana U-17 goalkeeper, Ali Jarah has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-116394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}