{"id":614493,"date":"2022-07-02T03:53:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614493"},"modified":"2022-07-02T03:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T07:53:15","slug":"stefan-ortega-joins-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/02\/stefan-ortega-joins-manchester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Bundesliga Goalkeeper Joins Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Ortega has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/28\/manchester-city-goalkeeper-movement\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> on a free transfer.\u00a0The former Arminia Bielefeld goalkeeper is expected to become The Sky Blues&#8217; second goalkeeper, following the loan departure of Zack Steffen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are pleased to announce the signing of goalkeeper Stefan Ortega Moreno on a three-year deal \ud83e\udde4<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to City, Stefan! \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2935\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1542795366029983745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Stefan Ortega to Manchester City<\/h2>\n<h3>Goalkeeper Switcheroo<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s now official that Stefan Ortega has joined Manchester City, after a period of rumours. The 29-year-old German has signed a three-year deal. The signing coincides well with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tombogert\/status\/1541840032146853890\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zack Steffen leaving for Middlesbrough<\/a> in the search of more playing time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/28\/manchester-city-goalkeeper-movement\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City Goalkeeper News: One in and One Out<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Only Yann Sommer (131) made more saves in the Bundesliga last season than Manchester City-bound Stefan Ortega (128). <\/p>\n<p>Trusty hands. \ud83e\udde4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fyI8xX33dV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/fyI8xX33dV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Amos Murphy (@AmosMurphy_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmosMurphy_\/status\/1539888191729242114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>From Germany&#8217;s Third Division to the Premier League<\/h3>\n<p>Following short stints with TSV Jahn Calden, KSV Baunatal and Hessen Kassel throughout his youth, Stefan Ortega joined Arminia Bielefeld as a 14-year-old. Here he enjoyed his first long-time stretch. Ortega made his senior debut after four years in their youth system, struggling to get playing time from start in the first few years of his professional career.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the German was a part of the Arminia squad that won promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. In 2014, Ortega signed for TSV 1860 Munich where he quickly became the first-choice goalkeeper. He returned to Arminia in 2017, enjoying a more successful spell than previously, being promoted to the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p>Ortega has been good in their Bundesliga season, despite Arminia themselves struggling &#8211; an indication of a solid goalkeeper. Now,\u00a0 his solidity has been rewarded by being signed by Manchester City, one of the best clubs in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/every-premier-league-transfer-completed-in-summer-2022\/\" target=\"_self\">Every Premier League Transfer Completed in Summer 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Ortega, the German goalkeeper scene is so oversaturated that even great keepers like him are unlikely to be given a chance for the national team. He was named as a potential reserve for Germany&#8217;s UEFA Euro 2020 squad, but only if Manuel Neuer, Bernd Leno or Kevin Trapp were unable to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Ortega has joined Manchester City on a free transfer.\u00a0The former Arminia Bielefeld goalkeeper is expected to become The Sky Blues&#8217; second goalkeeper, following the loan departure of Zack Steffen. We are pleased to announce the signing of goalkeeper Stefan Ortega Moreno on a three-year deal \ud83e\udde4 Welcome to City, Stefan! \ud83d\udc99 Read more \u2935\ufe0f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3313,"featured_media":614534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[17,4,3,28],"tags":[6610,9285],"class_list":["post-614493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-bundesliga","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-manchester-city-transfers","tag-stefan-ortega"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614493","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\/3313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}