{"id":1199784,"date":"2022-09-06T21:31:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T21:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/former-ghana-international-christian-atsu-joins-turkish-side-hatayspor-on-a-one-year-renewable-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T21:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T21:31:54","slug":"former-ghana-international-christian-atsu-joins-turkish-side-hatayspor-on-a-one-year-renewable-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/former-ghana-international-christian-atsu-joins-turkish-side-hatayspor-on-a-one-year-renewable-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ghana international Christian Atsu joins Turkish side Hatayspor on a one-year renewable deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Ghana international Christian Atsu has joined Turkish top-flight side Hatayspor on a one-year deal subject to renewable as he continues with his career.<\/p>\n<p>The much traveled Atsu, joins the Turkish side as a free agent after ending his stay in the Arab world where he last played in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>This move, has been confirmed by the Turkish club on their media channels as they welcomed the player to the club.<\/p>\n<p>The former FC Porto and Chelsea player, will hope to revive his career in the Turkish league after seeing his once blistering output, take a nose dive in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/7e061269ef474f12bbb5d21ae1edf8e5\"\/>Atsu, burst unto the football scene as a\u00a0teenage sensation and has also played for English Premiership sides Newcastle United and Everton.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year old has also played in Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal and, he will be an important addition to the Hatayspor side this season.<\/p>\n<p>He helped the Black Stars to a second placed finish at the African Cup of Nations tournament in 2015 and, has 64 caps for Ghana with 10 goals and nine assists.<\/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\">\nAtsu<br \/>\nFC Porto<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nHatayspor<br \/>\nTurkish<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ghana international Christian Atsu has joined Turkish top-flight side Hatayspor on a one-year deal subject to renewable as he continues with his career. The much traveled Atsu, joins the Turkish side as a free agent after ending his stay in the Arab world where he last played in Saudi Arabia. This move, has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[803,7470,807,85,25331,2444,658,14649,5245,800,5143],"class_list":["post-1199784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-atsu","tag-christian","tag-deal","tag-ghana","tag-hatayspor","tag-international","tag-joins","tag-oneyear","tag-renewable","tag-side","tag-turkish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199784","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=1199784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}