Efe Ambrose signs for Scottish Championship side Greenock Morton until the end of the season

FORMER Super Eagles defender Efe Ambrose has signed a short-term deal with Scottish Championship side Greenock Morton to play for them until the end of the season in the hope that he can help the club gain promotion to the Premiership.

Currently sitting second in the Scottish Championship table after 13 games, Greenock Morton are hopeful of securing promotion at the end of the season. Ambrose, 34, played for Glasgow giants Celtic between 2012 and 2017, during which time he helped Nigeria win the 2013 African Cup of Nations.

Without a club since leaving St Johnstone in the summer, Ambrose spent the second half of last season on loan at Dunfermline but could not help them avoid relegation to Scottish League One. He had been training with Hamilton since the summer to keep fit and has now completed a move to Morton, which becomes his sixth Scottish club.

"Greenock Morton are delighted to announce the signing on Efe Ambrose on a deal until the end of the season. Efe joins the team as a highly experienced defender playing almost 200 games in the Scottish Premiership where he won the league with Celtic on four occasions and making just under 50 appearances for his national team where he was part of the Nigeria side that lifted the Africa Cup of Nations in 2013," a club spokesman said.

Ambrose signed for English Championship Derby under Frank Lampard in February 2019 but did not play a single game before he was released at the end of that season. He first joined Celtic from Israeli outfit Ashdod in 2012 and helped the club reach the Champions League last 16 the following year.