{"id":32621,"date":"2026-07-23T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/joseph-opoku-swansea-city-sign-ghana-winger\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:28:30","slug":"joseph-opoku-swansea-city-sign-ghana-winger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/joseph-opoku-swansea-city-sign-ghana-winger\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Opoku: Swansea City sign Ghana winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Swansea City have completed the signing of Ghana winger Joseph Opoku from Zulte Waregem.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old joined the Belgian top-flight side in 2024, helping them to win promotion to the Belgian Pro League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has signed a four-year deal with the Championship Swans &#8211; who hold the option to extend the contract by an additional 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a young player, who has been exposed to a lot of senior football in Belgium,&#8221; said Swans head coach Vitor Matos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will be able to adapt to the physicality, the intensity and the amount of games in the Championship as we know he is a fast and sharp player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Opoku has joined us here in Austria (on their pre-season tour), and he has had his first training session and we&#8217;re excited to have him here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqjxvgl1g10o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City have completed the signing of Ghana winger Joseph Opoku from Zulte Waregem. The 20-year-old joined the Belgian top-flight side in 2024, helping them to win promotion to the Belgian Pro League. He has signed a four-year deal with the Championship Swans &#8211; who hold the option to extend the contract by an additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32623,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32621\/revisions\/32623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}