{"id":458400,"date":"2018-01-25T18:53:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/25\/edward-opoku-selected-in-2018-mls-superdraft\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T18:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:53:43","slug":"edward-opoku-selected-in-2018-mls-superdraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/25\/edward-opoku-selected-in-2018-mls-superdraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Opoku selected in 2018 MLS Superdraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/55736241.295.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Opoku Colombus\" title=\"Edward Opoku Colombus\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Edward Opoku was rated the 34th best prospect  in the US<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516906423_31_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Columbus Crew SC have selected highly rated Ghanaian youngster Edward Opoku with the 32-overall pick in the 2018 Major League Soccer SuperDraft.<\/p>\n<p>Opoku was born in Ghana, he moved to the U.SA six years ago through the Right to Dream Academy, a program that allows talented African soccer players to attend boarding schools aboard.<\/p>\n<p>The talented forward attended high school at the Millbrook School in Rye, New York where he set the boy\u2019s soccer program record for career goals, 85, and points, 115.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was rated as the 34th best prospect in the nation in 2015 by College Soccer News. After high school, he played soccer at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\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>Edward Opoku was rated the 34th best prospect in the US Columbus Crew SC have selected highly rated Ghanaian youngster Edward Opoku with the 32-overall pick in the 2018 Major League Soccer SuperDraft. Opoku was born in Ghana, he moved to the U.SA six years ago through the Right to Dream Academy, a program that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":456773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}