{"id":8587,"date":"2011-12-08T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/osei-to-face-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:10:35","slug":"osei-to-face-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/08\/osei-to-face-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Osei to face Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtnfootball.com\/content\/ransford_osei_ghana-580~2.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Ransford Osei<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ghana trialist Ransford Osei will get a run-out for Bloemfontein Celtic when they take on Free State Stars in a friendly on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Black Stars international has spent the last three weeks trying out at the PSL club, but has only just returned to full fitness after an injury and a bout of malaria laid him low.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Celtic are playing Stars in a match dubbed the Reconciliation Challenge and will be the perfect platform for Osei to prove his star quality to coach Clinton Larsen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Osei was rated as one of the brightest young stars in Africa when he finished as runner-up in the goal-scoring stakes at the 2007 FIFA Under-17 World Cup that was hosted in South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">That led to interest from a number of top European sides, but he has since suffered recurring injury problems that have stunted his development. He was last on the books of current Spanish La Liga side Granada on loan from Israeli outfit Maccabi Haifa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">But now after recuperating for the last three months in a Durban hospital after yet more knee problems, the 20-year-old is trying his luck with Celtic as he seeks to get his career back on track.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ransford Osei Ghana trialist Ransford Osei will get a run-out for Bloemfontein Celtic when they take on Free State Stars in a friendly on Saturday. The Black Stars international has spent the last three weeks trying out at the PSL club, but has only just returned to full fitness after an injury and a bout of malaria laid him low. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Osei to face Stars - 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\/12\/08\/osei-to-face-stars\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Osei to face Stars - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ransford Osei Ghana trialist Ransford Osei will get a run-out for Bloemfontein Celtic when they take on Free State Stars in a friendly on Saturday. 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