Afriyie Acquah

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Afriyie Acquah
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Afriyie Acquah, 2015
Personnel
Surname Ebenezer Afriyie Acquah
birthday 5th January 1992
place of birth Sunyani ,  Ghana
size 179 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
2001-2004 Glentoran Football Academy
2005-2007 Ashanti gold
2007-2008 Ashfield Boys
2008-2009 Mine stars
2009 Bechem United
2009-2010 DC United Agogo
2010-2011 US Palermo
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2011–2012 US Palermo 31 (0)
2012-2013 →  Parma FC  (loan) 13 (0)
2013-2015 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 0 (0)
2013-2015 → Parma FC (loan) 41 (1)
2015 →  Sampdoria Genoa  (loan) 10 (1)
2015-2018 Torino FC 71 (5)
2018– FC Empoli 17 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009-2010 Ghana U17 2 (1)
2012 Ghana U20 1 (0)
2012– Ghana 34 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of February 15, 2019

2 As of February 15, 2019

Ebenezer Afriyie Acquah (born January 5, 1992 in Sunyani ) is a Ghanaian football player .

Career

society

Acquah began his career at Glentoran Football Academy in Sunyani . The Glentoran FA is organized and administered by Northern Ireland's Glentoran FC as an international youth academy. After a stint in the youth team of the Ashanti Gold Club , he came to Ashfield Boys High School in Belfast, Northern Ireland with the help of the FIFA agent and founder of the Glentoran FA, Christopher Antoh Forsythe . After four months he returned to Ghana and played for the Ghanaian club Bechem United in the Poly Tank Second Division before going to DC United Agogo in Asante Akim . In 2010 he completed a trial training at US Palermo and signed a contract there after successfully completing the sports medicine examination.

In the second half of the 2010/11 season , Acquah made his Serie A debut for US Palermo . For the 2012/13 season he was awarded to FC Parma . On January 24, 2013, he moved to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . In the summer of 2013 he was awarded again to Parma FC. For the 2014/15 season , the loan was extended for another year. The loan ended in early February 2015 and Acquah was loaned to Sampdoria Genoa until the end of the season , for whom he appeared ten times in Serie A and scored one goal.

For the season 2015/16 Acquah moved to Turin FC .

National team

Acquah made his international debut for Ghana on February 29, 2012 against Chile . In qualifying for the 2013 African Cup of Nations, he scored his first international goal for Ghana against Malawi on October 13, 2012.

On May 13, 2014, he was appointed to the squad of the Ghanaian national soccer team for the 2014 World Cup .

Web links

Commons : Afriyie Acquah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Afriyie Acquah: Streets of Ghana to the World Cup - via Glentoran
  2. ↑ The rise of Palermo star Afriyie Acquah - MTNFootball ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Exclusive: Palermo's Teenage Ghanaian Sensation Afriyie Acquah Tipped To Emulate Lionel Messi As A Future Ballon d'Or Winner
  4. ↑ Officially: 1899 Hoffenheim awards Acquah and Junior Ponce
  5. ↑ 1899: Acquah moves to Parma
  6. ↑ Acquah continues to play for Parma FC - Advíncula stays in Lima
  7. ↑ Ghanas Boateng taunts - and is there , kicker.de (May 12, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Acquah, Afriyie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acquah, Ebenezer Afriyie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Sunyani , Ghana