Abedi Pelé

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Abedi Pelé
Abedi Pele 2007.jpg
Abédi Pelé (2007)
Personnel
Surname Abedi Ayew
birthday 5th November 1964
place of birth Oko at Dome ,  Ghana
size 174 cm
position Midfield , storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1976 Dome Anglican Primary School
1976-1988 Great Falcons
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1982 Real Tamale United
1982-1983 Al-Sadd
1983-1984 FC Zurich
1984 AS Dragons FC de l'Ouémé
1985 Real Tamale United
1986-1987 Chamois Niort 32 (14)
1987 FC Mulhouse 16 0(5)
1987-1989 Olympique Marseille 9 0(0)
1987-1989 Olympique Marseille B 7 0(2)
1988-1989 →  Lille OSC  (loan) 24 0(7)
1989-1990 Lille OSC 37 0(9)
1990-1993 Olympique Marseille 103 (23)
1990-1991 Olympique Marseille B 1 0(0)
1993-1994 Olympique Lyon 29 0(3)
1994-1996 Torino Calcio 49 (11)
1996-1998 TSV 1860 Munich 50 0(2)
1998-2000 Al Ain Club
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
1982-1998 Ghana 73 (33)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2003-2004 Real Tamale United
2004– Nania Accra FC
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

2 Status: end of career

Abédi Pelé , bourgeois Abédi Ayew (born November 5, 1964 in Oko near Dome ) is a former Ghanaian soccer player . In the vote for Africa's Footballer of the Century, the 174 centimeter tall midfielder was voted third behind George Weah and Roger Milla .

Career

Abédi Pelé's career as a professional footballer began in 1978 with the newly founded club Real Tamale United in Ghana. In 1982 he moved to Team Al-Sadd in Qatar and from there to FC Zurich in 1983 . He later went to France, where he played for Chamois Niort , Mulhouse FC , Olympique Marseille and Lille OSC between 1986 and 1993 . In Marseille (1989-90, 1991-93) he combined his attacking talent with tactical acumen and an amazing ability to make decisive moves and thus became the mainstay of winning the French championship in 1991 and 1992 and the Champions League title in 1993. After a Corruption scandal led to the dissolution of the team, he moved to Olympique Lyon in 1993 . Before retiring in 2000, he played in Italy, Germany and the United Emirates. In the Bundesliga he played 50 times for 1860 Munich from 1996 to 1998 and scored two goals.

Ayew played a total of 73 times in the Ghanaian national soccer team between 1982 and 1998, scoring 33 goals, while FIFA only recognizes 67 of these international matches with the same number of goals. From 1991 to 1993 he was named Africa's Footballer of the Year three times . In the vote for Africa's Footballer of the Century, he came third behind the Cameroonian Roger Milla and George Weah from Liberia . From Pele , he was on the list of FIFA 100 of added his opinion 125 greatest living footballers.

In 2002 and 2003 Abédi Pelé was a member of the board of the Ghana Football Association . He then coached his former club Real Tamale United for a year . In early 2004 Abédi Pelé became president and head coach of FC Nania Accra , whose professional team he has coached since then.

family

Abédi Pelé, whose younger brother Kwame Ayew was also a professional soccer player, has three sons and a daughter named Imani with his wife Maha . His sons Rahim , André and Jordan currently play for the national team of Ghana. Rahim and André took part in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, while André and Jordan then took part in the 2014 World Cup.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Abédi Pelé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ observer.gm: ports profile: Abédi Pelé, a football legend ( Memento from September 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ weltfussball.de: Abédi Pelé
  3. ↑ rsssf.com: IFFHS 'Century Elections
  4. ^ Abedi Ayew Pelé , in: Encyclopædia Britannica
  5. ↑ ghanaweb.com: The Success Story of Abedi Pele
  6. ↑ world-football-legends.co.uk: ABEDI 'PELÉ' AYEW ( Memento from July 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Keir Radnedge: World Football Records 2010. Ars Edition, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7607-5340-9 , pp. 116 and 117.
  8. ↑ fifa.com: "Africa makes it to the semi-finals" (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  9. ↑ fifa.com: ABEDI PELÉ - Ghana's most brilliant "Black Star"
  10. ↑ modernghana.com: Ghana's Abedi Pele launches biography
  11. ↑ ghanaweb.com: Abedi "Pele" Ayew Profile
  12. ↑ Nania FC Lead Nominations In FA Cup Awards ( Memento from December 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Toure named as FA Cup's MVP at www.gbcghana.com, accessed December 25, 2017
  14. ↑ Kotoko's Ahmed Toure named MTN FA Cup MVP on sportsinghana.com on August 22, 2011, accessed on December 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Pelé, Abédi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ayew, Abédi (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Oko at Dome , Ghana