{"id":466533,"date":"2018-02-22T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/22\/patrick-viera-excited-to-sign-ebenezer-ofori-on-loan\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:30:27","slug":"patrick-viera-excited-to-sign-ebenezer-ofori-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/22\/patrick-viera-excited-to-sign-ebenezer-ofori-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Viera excited to sign Ebenezer Ofori on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/36302753.295.jpg\" alt=\"EbenMLS\" title=\"EbenMLS\" width=\"295\" height=\"127\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ofori, who played four 2018 World Cup qualifiers for Ghana, had spent four seasons with AIK<\/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\/2018\/02\/1519291827_440_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghanaian midfielder Ebenezer Ofori has joined New York City FC (NYCFC) on a one-year loan from VfB Stuttgart after failing to keep his spot in the lineup following its promotion to the German Bundesliga.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 22-year old Ghanaian international had helped Stuttgart win promotion following his move from AIK Stockholm after the 2016 Swedish season.<\/p>\n<p>Ofori, who played four 2018 World Cup qualifiers for Ghana, had spent four seasons with AIK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to bring in Ebenezer,&#8221; said NYCFC coach Patrick Vieira.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a young player who is looking to improve, he is really dynamic and can cover ground. He&#8217;s really aggressive, but he&#8217;s good with the ball, too. I&#8217;m really pleased that we managed to bring him to the football club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ofori, who was named the best midfielder in the Swedish Allsvenskan in 2015, will give NYCFC competition in central midfield, where Alex Ring held down the starting spot in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Ofori becomes the second Ghanaian to join the NYCFC ranks with midfielder Kwame Awuah already on their books.<\/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>Ofori, who played four 2018 World Cup qualifiers for Ghana, had spent four seasons with AIK Ghanaian midfielder Ebenezer Ofori has joined New York City FC (NYCFC) on a one-year loan from VfB Stuttgart after failing to keep his spot in the lineup following its promotion to the German Bundesliga.&#13; The 22-year old Ghanaian international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":466526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466533","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=466533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}