{"id":1170934,"date":"2022-08-08T21:16:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/former-asante-kotoko-striker-kwame-opoku-joins-saudi-arabia-side-najran-sc-on-loan-from-usm-alger\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:16:34","slug":"former-asante-kotoko-striker-kwame-opoku-joins-saudi-arabia-side-najran-sc-on-loan-from-usm-alger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/former-asante-kotoko-striker-kwame-opoku-joins-saudi-arabia-side-najran-sc-on-loan-from-usm-alger\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Asante Kotoko striker Kwame Opoku joins Saudi Arabia side Najran SC on loan from USM Alger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Asante Kotoko striker Kwame Opoku has been loaned to Saudi Arabia side Najran SC by Algerian side USM Alger.<\/p>\n<p>The player, joins the Saudi First Division side on a season long loan with an option to buy at the end of the period.<\/p>\n<p>Opoku, has been hampered by injuries since he joined USM Alger from Asante Kotoko a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/30a10a9897a843a39937dcd0bfcaeb9f\"\/>He has struggled for playing time in recent weeks, and, this loan move to Saudi Arabia will be seen by the striker as an opportunity to revive his career.<\/p>\n<p>The player was a constant hit with Asante Kotoko despite the short time he spent at the Garden City club and earning a national team call-up.<\/p>\n<p>He will look to relaunch his once blistering career with age on his side.<\/p>\n<p>The Arabians have an option to buy the player if he impresses for them and, this is what Opoku will be playing for at his new club.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: KONTOMIRE (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAsante Kotoko<br \/>\nKwame Opoku<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia<br \/>\nSaudi First Division<br \/>\nUSM Alger<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Asante Kotoko striker Kwame Opoku has been loaned to Saudi Arabia side Najran SC by Algerian side USM Alger. The player, joins the Saudi First Division side on a season long loan with an option to buy at the end of the period. Opoku, has been hampered by injuries since he joined USM Alger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18354,13443,213,658,16,3651,659,22735,4025,6393,800,4573,22736],"class_list":["post-1170934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-alger","tag-arabia","tag-asante","tag-joins","tag-kotoko","tag-kwame","tag-loan","tag-najran","tag-opoku","tag-saudi","tag-side","tag-striker","tag-usm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170934","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=1170934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}