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4 times John Paintsil made headlines that wasn't about his football

John Paintsil has been with us as a football icon for over a decade and we look at times he made news off the pitch.

John Paintsil has seemingly been portrayed as one Ghana’s calmest football personalities in Ghana. Anytime the name John Paintsil is mentioned, it would be hard for you to think of a flashy car or probably an explosive scandal.

John Paintsil during and after his career has still found a way to become a source of attraction for Ghana’s media space.

Waving the Isreali flag in the 2006 World Cup

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John Paintsil played for two Israeli city rival clubs from Tel Aviv. The right back played two years each for  Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv before going to Germany for the 2006 World Cup.

In the 2006 World Cup in paying homage to the fans in Isreal, there he was brandishing the Isreali flag in few goal celebrations.

A number of Ghanaians did not get the gesture from John Painstil as they did not get why he brandished the flag of Isreal as he wore a Ghana Black Stars jersey.

John Paintsil accused of sexual assault

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The right back did not get himself in the news until 2013 where he was accused of brutally assaulting his wife.

John Paintsil in February 2013 was accused of assault and was taken under police custody. There was a lot of brouhaha in the news as the right back at the time had his image skewed to another direction. His wife wanted him released when he went in police custody and with that indication the problem might have been exaggerated after all.

In an interview with Kwese TV on the programme Home Run, Painstil revealed that the accusation of assault towards his wife wrecked his career.

Richlove Paintsil allegedly filing for divorce

In 2014, the news broke that John Paintsil’s wife had filed for divorce. This was in an interesting season where huge names who were once cult heroes in the Black Stars, John Mensah and Nii Odartey were going throught similar ordeals with their life partners at the time.

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It turns out that the story was not the case as John Paintsil days after the news went viral came to deny those claims and pointed John Mensah’s former wife Henrietta as the informant who took the news to the media to cause problems in his marriage.

John Paintsil is still married to Richlove Paintsil whereas those two individuals mentioned have moved on from their partners at the time.

John Paintsil appointed assistant coach of Kaizer Chiefs

John Paintsil after his career managed to land as an assistant coaching role with Soweto based club Kaizer Chiefs in 2016.

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This came as great news for Ghanaians to find out that Paintsil had moved on from his playing days into great things.

In June 2017, he parted ways with the side amidst a sexual scandal which John Paintsil later on denied.

The reasons behind the termination of that contract are yet to be known as both John Paintsil and the club have been silent on the issue.

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