{"id":11268,"date":"2025-01-24T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11268"},"modified":"2025-01-24T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:21:06","slug":"prosper-ogum-hails-michael-sefahs-signing-as-major-coup-for-kotoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11268","title":{"rendered":"Prosper Ogum Hails Michael Sefah&#8217;s Signing as Major Coup for Kotoko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/f0976afd-d463-40a5-8d36-7e6750b6cf66.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/f0976afd-d463-40a5-8d36-7e6750b6cf66.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/f0976afd-d463-40a5-8d36-7e6750b6cf66-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/f0976afd-d463-40a5-8d36-7e6750b6cf66-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Asante Kotoko coach Prosper Narteh Ogum believes the addition of Michael Sefah to their backline strengthens the team to compete for titles this season.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old joined the Porcupine Warriors from Division One side Port City FC on an 18 month contract on transfer deadline day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the club official unveiled the player on Wednesday and could make the squad for the game against Karela on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMichael is a fantastic addition to our team. His ability to play both as a center-back and in defensive midfield gives us great tactical flexibility. He completed our center-back options as we previously had only three senior ones in Ablorh, Samba, and Ansu,&#8221; said Ogum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Michael\u2019s arrival not only strengthens our defense but also provides leadership and stability, which will be crucial as we compete on multiple fronts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sefah joins Kwasi Asante, Isaac Mintah, Sampson Eduku and Kwame Opoku as signings in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kumasi-based giants finished the first round just a point behind leaders Bibiani GoldStars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asante Kotoko coach Prosper Narteh Ogum believes the addition of Michael Sefah to their backline strengthens the team to compete for titles this season.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11270,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions\/11270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}