{"id":1161785,"date":"2022-07-29T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/29\/ghana-goalie-richard-ofori-named-orlando-pirates-vice-captain\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:28:06","slug":"ghana-goalie-richard-ofori-named-orlando-pirates-vice-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/29\/ghana-goalie-richard-ofori-named-orlando-pirates-vice-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana goalie Richard Ofori named Orlando Pirates&#8217; vice captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20200328G190220C1962-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"Richard Ofori\" title=\"Richard Ofori\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Ofori<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana goalkeeper, Richard Ofori, has been named as the vice-captain\u00a0of South African side, Orlando Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old will assist the new captain, Innocent Maela, following the departure of the previous skipper, Happy Jele.<\/p>\n<p>Ofori joined Orlando Pirates from Maritzburg United in October 2020 and has been a key figure for the club, appearing in 42 matches across all competitions, conceding 28 goals, and keeping 21 clean sheets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He was also instrumental in helping the team progress to the final of last season\u2019s CAF Confederation Cup where they lost on penalties to Moroccan side RS Berkane.<\/p>\n<p>Ofori, who is a former Wa All-Stars shot-stopper and Ghana Premier League winner, is expected to cut Ghana\u2019s squad for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar later this year.<\/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=\"qrCEykairHc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam On Adom TV (29-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrCEykairHc?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>Richard Ofori Ghana goalkeeper, Richard Ofori, has been named as the vice-captain\u00a0of South African side, Orlando Pirates. The 28-year-old will assist the new captain, Innocent Maela, following the departure of the previous skipper, Happy Jele. Ofori joined Orlando Pirates from Maritzburg United in October 2020 and has been a key figure for the club, appearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1099,85,2138,207,3653,10752,1115,2317,1602],"class_list":["post-1161785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-captain","tag-ghana","tag-goalie","tag-named","tag-ofori","tag-orlando","tag-pirates","tag-richard","tag-vice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161785","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=1161785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}