Abubakari Yakubu

Abubakari Yakubu
Personnel
birthday	December 13, 1981
place of birth	Tema ,  Ghana
date of death	October 31, 2017
Place of death	Tema ,  Ghana
size	178 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	Great Mariners FC
	Ajax Amsterdam
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2005	Ajax Amsterdam	65 (0)
2004-2005	→  Vitesse Arnhem  (loan)	31 (0)
2005-2009	Vitesse Arnhem	49 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2002-2006	Ghana	15 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Abubakari Yakubu (born December 13, 1981 in Tema ; † October 31, 2017 there ) was a Ghanaian football player .

Athletic career

Yakubu left Ghana at the age of 17 to join Dutch record champions Ajax Amsterdam . After his debut in the Eredivisie in April 2000, the defensive midfielder was not able to establish himself permanently in his club as a regular, but was promoted to the Ghanaian international . After playing for various junior teams in his country of birth, he made his debut for the senior national team in 2002. In the same year he won the double from the Dutch championship and national cup at club level , in the following Champions League season he reached the quarter-finals with the club, in which the team failed at the later champions AC Milan . In 2004 he won the championship title a second time with Ajax.

From summer 2004 Ajax Amsterdam awarded Yakubu to league rivals Vitesse Arnhem . With the club, which in previous years had only narrowly escaped relegation to the second division, the midfielder occupied seventh place in the table in the 2004/05 season . After the end of the season, the club took him over permanently and agreed a four-year contract with the Ghanaian player. In early 2006 he took part in the 2006 African Cup of Nations with the Ghanaian national team . After the surprising elimination in the preliminary round, national coach Ratomir Dujković rolled up the squad for the 2006 World Cup , for which Ghana had qualified for the first time. Among other things, Yakubu was not one of the 23 players nominated for the tournament in Germany in the summer, so his national team career ended after 15 international matches . He remained loyal to Vitesse until his contract ended in 2009, but was only used here irregularly.

From the summer of 2009, Yakubu, who had played 145 first division games in ten years at Ajax and Vitesse and remained without scoring, was without a club. He died in the fall of 2017 at the age of 36 in a hospital in his native Tema.

Web links

• Abubakari Yakubu in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} bbc.com: "Former Ghana star Abubakar dies at the age of 36"