{"id":738,"date":"2026-07-10T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:21:14","slug":"gideon-mensah-set-to-join-fc-koln-sahara-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Mensah set to join FC K\u00f6ln \u2022 Sahara Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Gideon-Mensah.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gideon Mensah set to join FC K\u00f6ln \u2022 Sahara Football\" title=\"Gideon Mensah set to join FC K\u00f6ln \u2022 Sahara Football\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ghanaian left-back Gideon Mensah is on the verge of signing with Bundesliga side FC K\u00f6ln as a free agent following the expiration of his contract with French club AJ Auxerre on June 30, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mensah started all of Ghana\u2019s matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, delivering consistent and reliable performances as a full back.<\/p>\n<p>FC K\u00f6ln \u00a0will rely on the valuable experience of Mensah from the Ligue 1 side Auxerre for the upcoming Bundesliga campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old began his career at WAFA, Ghana, before moving to Europe, \u00a0Red Bull Salzburg\u2019s system (with loans at Sturm Graz, Zulte Waregem, Vit\u00f3ria Guimar\u00e3es, and Bordeaux) before joining Auxerre permanently in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He has made over 100 appearances for the French club and earned nearly 40 caps for the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian left-back Gideon Mensah is on the verge of signing with Bundesliga side FC K\u00f6ln as a free agent following the expiration of his contract with French club AJ Auxerre on June 30, 2026. Mensah started all of Ghana\u2019s matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, delivering consistent and reliable performances as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Gideon-Mensah.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[384,1557,1559,1560,1558,383,981],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-football","tag-gideon","tag-join","tag-koln","tag-mensah","tag-sahara","tag-set"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}