{"id":577743,"date":"2021-01-06T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=577743"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:42:31","slug":"jordy-hiwula-signs-portsmouth-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/06\/jordy-hiwula-signs-portsmouth-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordy Hiwula Signs Portsmouth Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/tag\/portsmouth\/\" target=\"_self\">Portsmouth<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f6121039\/Jordy-Hiwula\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordy Hiwula<\/a> has extended his contract. The extension will keep the 26-year-old at Fratton Park until the summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Portsmouth Forward Jordy Hiwula Pens Contract for Remainder of the Season<\/h2>\n<h3>Three Goals in Five Games for Hiwula at Portsmouth<\/h3>\n<p>Having won League One last season with Coventry City, Hiwula was released by the Sky Blues but quickly snapped up by Kenny Jackett and Portsmouth on a short term contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old may have only featured five times this season, but he has found the net on three occasions as he returns to full fitness.<\/p>\n<p>His goals came during Pompey&#8217;s 6-1 FA Cup win over Kings Lynn Town and a brace against Cheltenham Town in the Football League Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portsmouth.co.uk\/sport\/football\/portsmouth-fc\/league-one-rivals-swindon-reportedly-interested-portsmouth-striker-3083935?_gl=1*181rx5j*_ga*YW1wLUJkS19LajZJejFITTM1X2diVHNmem1CYXhsbGhuSUs1c0tKZUM5OHVHTC1acW9aNW9iZm5OaEItUk5jMHFGM3g.\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The News Portsmouth reported<\/a> that League One strugglers Swindon Town were looking to acquire the forward following the expiry of his Pompey contract, but that has now been quashed.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portsmouthfc.co.uk\/news\/2021\/january\/hiwula-signs-new-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaking to the clubs&#8217; official website, Hiwula said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve settled in really well here and wanted to stay for the rest of the season, so I\u2019m really pleased to have signed a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a personal level, I\u2019m hoping to be involved a bit more, but will just take things one game at a time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still in three competitions and looking to do well in all of them, although the aim has to be to secure promotion and we\u2019ve got a set of boys here who can achieve that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a strange time with no games for a few weeks, but we\u2019ve been training hard and are feeling fresh ahead of the FA Cup game at Bristol City this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pompey manager Kenny Jackett added: \u201cI\u2019m delighted that we\u2019ve secured Jordy\u2019s services for the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an excellent finisher, with good movement and touch, and has been pushing our forward players for a starting place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really pleased that he\u2019ll be staying with us as we do our best to secure promotion to the Championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"WHfBlUOQQYl-BRFbA3hs4Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1284993976\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'WHfBlUOQQYl-BRFbA3hs4Q',sig:'LofeJE7HqC0Bk8bcQBh-CrAfyF1rsEprwfHU9uO6Dbg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1284993976',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portsmouth forward Jordy Hiwula has extended his contract. The extension will keep the 26-year-old at Fratton Park until the summer. Portsmouth Forward Jordy Hiwula Pens Contract for Remainder of the Season Three Goals in Five Games for Hiwula at Portsmouth Having won League One last season with Coventry City, Hiwula was released by the Sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":577744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,32858,34,30],"tags":[5279,661,5162,188,914,136],"class_list":["post-577743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-coventry-city","category-league12","category-news","tag-contract-news","tag-coventry-city","tag-jordy-hiwula","tag-league-one","tag-portsmouth","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670356,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577743\/revisions\/670356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}