{"id":385052,"date":"2011-04-21T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/ex-black-queens-player-patricia-ofori-killed-in-car-accident\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T19:16:53","slug":"ex-black-queens-player-patricia-ofori-killed-in-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/ex-black-queens-player-patricia-ofori-killed-in-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Black Queens Player Patricia Ofori Killed In Car Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Former Black Queens player Patricia Ofori was killed in a car accident on Wednesday in Huntsville in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old, who played in two World Cups for Ghana, lost control of her Ford Mustang while driving south on Pulaski Pike just outside Huntsville.<\/p>\n<p>Her car slid into the northbound lane, where it was hit by a pickup truck and caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Ofori was an alumini of Alabama A&#038;M University where she excelled in a football and studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the biggest shock of my life,\u201d A&#038;M women\u2019s soccer coach Frank Davies said. \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ofori, 29, played for the Bulldogs from 2005-2007 and led the team to the 2007 Southwestern Athletic Conference championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>She was a second-team All-SWAC selection in 2005 and also played on two World Cup teams with Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>According to Diane Wilkinson Snoddy, an instructor at A&#038;M, Ofori, who was in graduate school, was on the way to class when the accident happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was a wonderful person and one of the world\u2019s great soccer players,\u201d Snoddy said.<\/p>\n<p>Ofori started her career in Ghana with Mawuena Ladies before she was called into the national team in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d65bget.media_3-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Former Black Queens player Patricia Ofori was killed in a car accident on Wednesday in Huntsville in the United States. The 29-year-old, who played in two World Cups for Ghana, lost control of her Ford Mustang while driving south on Pulaski Pike just outside Huntsville. Her car slid into the northbound lane, where it was hit by a pickup truck and caught fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Black Queens Player Patricia Ofori Killed In Car Accident - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/ex-black-queens-player-patricia-ofori-killed-in-car-accident\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ex-Black Queens Player Patricia Ofori Killed In Car Accident - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former Black Queens player Patricia Ofori was killed in a car accident on Wednesday in Huntsville in the United States. 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