{"id":445366,"date":"2017-12-09T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/09\/photos-junior-agogo-bounces-back-to-life-after-stroke\/"},"modified":"2017-12-09T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T17:00:35","slug":"photos-junior-agogo-bounces-back-to-life-after-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/09\/photos-junior-agogo-bounces-back-to-life-after-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Junior Agogo bounces back to life after stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday,  9 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/26096166.295.jpg\" alt=\"Junior Agogo New1\" title=\"Junior Agogo New1\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Ghana striker Junior Agogo looks to have recovered nicely from the stroke<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512838834_203_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Ghana striker Junior Agogo looks to have recovered from his stroke with some hearty looking pictures to show the massive improvement after the setback.<\/p>\n<p>As a professional footballer, Manuel \u2018Junior\u2018 Agogo scored over 140 goals in his professional football career and immensely helped Ghana qualify for the final stages of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations where they placed third.<\/p>\n<p>At 32 Junior Agogo was at the pinnacle of his career, playing great soccer and was idolized by many.<\/p>\n<p>News about Agogo&#8217;s stroke shocked the world in January 2015, after retiring from football. He was reported to have been struck with Aphasia which adversely impeded his speech liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel&#8217;s personality is loved by many around the globe and undoubtedly people took to social media to express their excitement and memories of him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for the first time after the stroke in a BBC documentary published on October 29, 2017, Agogo said the stroke left him lacking confidence, and he feels socially isolated. He also revealed how his mother single handedly took care of him.<\/p>\n<p>Agogo is now back to his best and has started going out to see family and friends after a long while.<\/p>\n<p><b>Please see of the the heart warming pictures of Agogo since he recovered from the stroke:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/17510555.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/82240510.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/43075975.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 56 updated by: 56 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Saturday, 9 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-09 Former Ghana striker Junior Agogo looks to have recovered nicely from the stroke Former Ghana striker Junior Agogo looks to have recovered from his stroke with some hearty looking pictures to show the massive improvement after the setback. As a professional footballer, Manuel \u2018Junior\u2018 Agogo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":445369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PHOTOS: Junior Agogo bounces back to life after stroke - 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\/2017\/12\/09\/photos-junior-agogo-bounces-back-to-life-after-stroke\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"PHOTOS: Junior Agogo bounces back to life after stroke - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Saturday, 9 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-09 Former Ghana striker Junior Agogo looks to have recovered nicely from the stroke Former Ghana striker Junior Agogo looks to have recovered from his stroke with some hearty looking pictures to show the massive improvement after the setback. 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