{"id":1133470,"date":"2022-06-24T18:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T18:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/24\/black-stars-jojo-wollacott-joins-charlton-athletic\/"},"modified":"2022-06-24T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T18:01:03","slug":"black-stars-jojo-wollacott-joins-charlton-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/24\/black-stars-jojo-wollacott-joins-charlton-athletic\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars: Jojo Wollacott joins Charlton Athletic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"450\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-24-105829.png\"   alt=\"Jojo Wollacott\" title=\"Jojo Wollacott\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jojo Wollacott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>English League Two side, Charlton Athletic FC has confirmed the signing of Ghana goalkeeper, Joseph Wollacott on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year old joins Charlton Athletic\u00a0as a free agent after his contract expired at Swindon Town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted. It\u2019s the sort of club that you always want to be at,\u201d he said after joining the club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always have the ambition to play for such a high-profile club.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously walking around the stadium you can feel the magnitude of the club. I\u2019m really happy to be here.<\/p>\n<p>Wollacott made 39 appearances last season and helped them to the League Two play-offs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He becomes the club\u2019s third signing ahead of the new season. Wollacott has seven caps for Ghana after making his international debut last year.<\/p>\n<p>Wollacott came through the ranks at Bristol City and went on loan spells outside the EFL.<\/p>\n<p>He then joined then League Two side Forest Green Rovers on loan in 2019\/2020, making his professional debut against Charlton.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Swindon Town on an emergency loan in 2021, before signing a permanent deal at the start of the 2021\/2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>Wollacott was voted League Two goalkeeper of the season after an outstanding 2021\/2022 campaign with Swindon Town.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"FLq6L32FxoU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Confession: I was s\u00e9xually abused by fetish in my quest to end spiritual attachment (23-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLq6L32FxoU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jojo Wollacott English League Two side, Charlton Athletic FC has confirmed the signing of Ghana goalkeeper, Joseph Wollacott on a three-year deal. The 25-year old joins Charlton Athletic\u00a0as a free agent after his contract expired at Swindon Town. \u201cI\u2019m delighted. It\u2019s the sort of club that you always want to be at,\u201d he said after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1974,94,18715,658,7073,95,7074],"class_list":["post-1133470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-athletic","tag-black","tag-charlton","tag-joins","tag-jojo","tag-stars","tag-wollacott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}