{"id":1259934,"date":"2022-11-30T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/30\/congolese-defender-is-back-to-join-hearts-of-oak\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:25:26","slug":"congolese-defender-is-back-to-join-hearts-of-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/30\/congolese-defender-is-back-to-join-hearts-of-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Congolese defender is back to join Hearts of Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Congolese defender, Raddy Ovouka has reacted following his return to GPL side, Hearts of Oak after a ten-month stint with New Mexico United.<\/p>\n<p>The experienced left-back played a key role in Hearts of Oak team that won the Ghana Premier League and MTN FA Cup in the 2020\/21 season before leaving the shores of Ghana in January.<\/p>\n<p>Ovouka in an interview with Ghanaian Times spoke about his return and revealed why he\u2019s going to be a starter for the MTN FA Cup holders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t compete; my performance speaks for me. I deserve the left-back position in any club I find myself. I respect those there but I\u2019m the fans favourite\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing back to Hearts is to respect the contract with them as their player but not to compete for the position,\u201d Ovouka said.<\/p>\n<p>The higly-rated left-back added that he\u2019s improved in the last few months as he has sharpened his attacking prowess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy eye for goals has improved due to my attacking prowess but I have not abandoned my defensive abilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raddy Ovouka played 29 league matches, scored one goal and made three assists to help Hearts in winning the 2020\/21 Ghana Premier League after a 12-year trophy drought after joining the team in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>His only goal of the season was his debut goal, which was scored on 7 March 2021 during Samuel Boadu\u2019s first game in charge, helping Hearts to a 4\u20130 victory over West African Football Academy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0a4fcc8b8ce84439abf54a116023536b\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/6b2a656928bc433d80f4b3f63b2e6f40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the season, he was considered as the best left-back in the league and was reportedly an interest for a club in the Ligue 1 alongside other clubs in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OnAndOffThePitch (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\">\nGPL<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGhanaian Times<br \/>\nNew Mexico United<br \/>\nRaddy Ovouka<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congolese defender, Raddy Ovouka has reacted following his return to GPL side, Hearts of Oak after a ten-month stint with New Mexico United. The experienced left-back played a key role in Hearts of Oak team that won the Ghana Premier League and MTN FA Cup in the 2020\/21 season before leaving the shores of Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21770,397,216,1302,217],"class_list":["post-1259934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-congolese","tag-defender","tag-hearts","tag-join","tag-oak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259934","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=1259934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}