{"id":741795,"date":"2022-01-09T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/hearts-of-oak-defender-talks-about-unfamiliar-role-and-debut-goal-of-the-season\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:28:24","slug":"hearts-of-oak-defender-talks-about-unfamiliar-role-and-debut-goal-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/hearts-of-oak-defender-talks-about-unfamiliar-role-and-debut-goal-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts of Oak Defender Talks About Unfamiliar Role And Debut Goal of The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Playing in an unfamiliar role in a team\u2019s set up sometimes derails the mental state of a footballer but as it stands, things have changed in the sport of football and players must adapt to new and unlikely roles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e1e4140ee38643f2bfaec9a196743de5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>James Sewornu is Hearts of Oak\u2019s\u00a0defender who has had a topsy-turvey outing in central defence when deputizing for then injured Robert Addo Sowah. The lanky defender partnered Mohammed Alhassan in the Phobians\u2019 poor CAF Confederation Cup outing where they got eliminated by Algeria club, Jeunesse Sportive de Saoura. He has not done badly in all domestic competitions &#8211; playing a part in Hearts of Oak\u2019s qualification to the MTN FA Cup round 32. He was for the first time deployed at right back for captain Fatawu Mohammed against Premier League new boys, Gold Stars in week 12 at the Duns Park on Saturday. He put up an MVP performance which was capped with a debut season\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/500ba4ff777f419a9105066074d89e19\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sewornu, who is a product of Hearts of Oak\u2019s youth system, Auroras, shot the 2000 CAF Champions League winners into the lead on the 30th minute with an accurate strike from Daniel Afriyie Barnieh\u2019s assist. The ebony black defender has talked about fitting into the unfamiliar right back role. \u201cI have played right back and centre back at my former club so when he [Samuel Boadu] places me at right back I knew I could play,\u201d James Sewornu told StarTimes. On scoring his debut goal and how he managed to get his target right, Sewornu describes the strike as a normal training routine. \u201cWe mostly practice that in training; target, target, target. \u201cSo I called him [Daniel Afriyie Barnieh] and he laid the ball to me. \u201cI had to bend and strike.\u201d James Sewornu told StarTimes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/b1c581c1c52a435ea0d5b1d839671336\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The win came at a perfect time for Sewornu and the club as a whole as week 11 left the club\u2019s fans agitated after their goalless draw against Bechem United at the Accra Sports Stadium. The 2001 CAF Super Cup winners have now amassed 17 points from 10 games with games against rivals, Asante Kotoko and Medeama outstanding. Their next fixture is the outstanding game against Medeama at the Akoon Park on Wednesday, January 12 before taking on strugglers, Eleven Wonders in week 13 on Sunday, January, 16 at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (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\">\nCAF Champions League<br \/>\nHearts of Oak<br \/>\nJeunesse Sportive de Saoura<br \/>\nMohammed Alhassan<br \/>\nSamuel Boadu<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing in an unfamiliar role in a team\u2019s set up sometimes derails the mental state of a footballer but as it stands, things have changed in the sport of football and players must adapt to new and unlikely roles. James Sewornu is Hearts of Oak\u2019s\u00a0defender who has had a topsy-turvey outing in central defence when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741795","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=741795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}