{"id":353299,"date":"2026-07-27T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353299\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:00:14","slug":"orlando-pirates-complete-signing-of-norway-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353299\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Pirates complete signing of Norway striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Orlando Pirates have completed the signing of Norwegian striker Sebastian Pedersen from Sogndal Fotball on a two-year deal with an option for an extra season, the Soweto club confirmed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old is a Norway junior international and scored 59 goals in 166 appearances for various clubs in his homeland.<\/p>\n<p>He will vie for a place in the starting line-up with Bafana Bafana striker Evidence Makgopa and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/mbuthuma-yanela\/Yau3xnYk\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yanela Mbuthuma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/orlando-pirates\/p4SF9EMI\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Pirates<\/a> Football Club is pleased to announce the signing of striker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/pedersen-sebastian\/fmxq5TZ8\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Pedersen<\/a> from Norwegian side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/sogndal\/r5la287M\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sogndal Fotball<\/a>,\u201d the club said in a statement. \u201cHe becomes the newest addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/ouaddou-abdeslam\/zVIMcak1\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abdeslam Ouaddou<\/a>\u2019s squad as the Buccaneers prepare for a competitive season ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPedersen arrives from one of Norwegian football\u2019s great talent factories. The blond bomber is cut from that cloth, having featured at junior national team level from U15 all the way to U21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of his style of play, Pedersen is considered a one-touch finisher rather than a bulldozer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pirates open their Betway Premiership title defence against promoted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/milford\/vVj5ECUK\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milford FC<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Pirates have completed the signing of Norwegian striker Sebastian Pedersen from Sogndal Fotball on a two-year deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-353299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}