{"id":1181833,"date":"2022-08-17T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/ex-asante-kotoko-augustine-okrah-scores-on-debut-as-simba-sc-win-opening-league-game-in-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:33:00","slug":"ex-asante-kotoko-augustine-okrah-scores-on-debut-as-simba-sc-win-opening-league-game-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/ex-asante-kotoko-augustine-okrah-scores-on-debut-as-simba-sc-win-opening-league-game-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Asante Kotoko Augustine Okrah scores on debut as Simba SC win opening league game in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Asante Kotoko forward Augustine Okrah opened his account in Tanzania on Wednesday afternoon after scoring in Simba SC&#8221;s opening league game of the 2022\/23 season.<\/p>\n<p>Okrah, who joined the Tanzanian giants during this transfer window, was in great form in this afternoon&#8217;s fixture in front of the home fans of Simba SC.<\/p>\n<p>He opened the scoring in the 37th minute as Simba coasted to a comfortable 3-0 home win over Geita Gold FC in their first game of the season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/61350273a699406eb590c113d2e9308e\"\/>Okrah, was rated at 8.3 in this fixture played in front of a very passionate Simba SC home crowd as they moved top of the standing after the opening round of matches.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bechem United player will look to build on this performance for the reminder of the campaign as Simba chase yet, another top-flight title in the Tanzanian championship.<\/p>\n<p>They will be hoping to wrestle the title from rivals Young Africans who won the diadem last season.<\/p>\n<p>Simba SC and Yanga, are the co-favourites to win this season&#8217;s competition and, both will represent Tanzania in the CAF Champions League which begins in September.<\/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\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Asante Kotoko forward Augustine Okrah opened his account in Tanzania on Wednesday afternoon after scoring in Simba SC&#8221;s opening league game of the 2022\/23 season. Okrah, who joined the Tanzanian giants during this transfer window, was in great form in this afternoon&#8217;s fixture in front of the home fans of Simba SC. He opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6962,3210,11719,281,16,674,16201,997,2929,9902,16204,309],"class_list":["post-1181833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-augustine","tag-debut","tag-exasante","tag-game","tag-kotoko","tag-league","tag-okrah","tag-opening","tag-scores","tag-simba","tag-tanzania","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181833","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=1181833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}