Charles Amoah

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Charles Amoah
Personnel
Surname Charles Baye Amoah
birthday February 28, 1975
place of birth Accra ,  Ghana
size 175 cm
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994-1995 Okwawu United
1995-1996 FC Winterthur
1996-1998 FC Frauenfeld
1998-1999 FC Wil 33 (20)
1999-2001 FC St. Gallen 55 (37)
2001-2003 SK Sturm Graz 72 (17)
2003-2004 SV Austria Salzburg 5 (1)
2004-2006 ASK Kottingbrunn
2006-2007 LASK Linz 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1999-2003 Ghana 15 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Charles Baye Amoah (born February 28, 1975 in Accra ) is a former Ghanaian soccer player .

Career

As a player for Okwawu United from Nkawkaw , Amoah was the top scorer in the Ghana Premier League with nine goals in the 1994/95 season . In the summer of 1995 he moved to the Swiss second division (National League B) FC Winterthur , but was rarely taken into account by coach Martin Andermatt and initially loaned to third division (1st division) FC Frauenfeld during the season . There the counter-attacker developed further in terms of football and scored more than twenty goals in the 1997/98 season for Thurgau, so that the second division FC Wil under coach Marcel Koller noticed him and signed him in June 1998. At the end of the season, the club narrowly missed promotion to the top class and after 33 league games with 20 goals, Amoah moved to FC St. Gallen , for whom he made his debut in National League A on July 7, 1999 in a 2-0 win over FC Luzern celebrated. The Ghanaian became the defining player of the season there, the team from Espenmoos won the Swiss championship for the first time in 96 years in May 2000 , and Amoah was the league's top scorer with 25 goals . Because of his important goals, his strong dribbling and the great service to the team, he was given the title “outstanding” by the Swiss. He was also named Axpo Player of the Year . In the following season, the right-footed player became the best European cup scorer in St. Gallen to date with five goals in six games . For the eastern Swiss Amoah was after a total of 64 competitive games and 43 goals no longer hold for financial reasons, so that on January 9, 2001 he signed a four and a half year contract with the Austrian top team SK Sturm Graz . With a transfer sum of six million Swiss francs (the equivalent of around 54 million schillings or four million euros ), this was the most expensive transfer in the Austrian Bundesliga at the time.

He did not live up to expectations and mostly only came to partial assignments. For the second half of the 2006/2007 season he was under contract with the Austrian first division club LASK Linz .

Under coach Giuseppe Dossena Amoah made his debut on November 12, 1999 in the 2-1 victory over Egypt as a substitute for Yaw Preko in the Ghanaian national team . At the end of December 1999 he was nominated in the provisional squad for the Africa Cup 2000 in his own country, but deleted from the final squad. By 2003 Amoah played 15 international matches in which he scored ten goals.

Personal

Amoah is married and has three children. His eldest son Winfred (* 2000) has been part of the SK Sturm Graz first team since January 2020 . Amoah lives with his family in Graz and works there in the Puntigam brewery .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b An African writes new Austrian football history. In: wienerzeitung.at (January 23, 2001).
  2. ↑ Ken Bediako : The complete history of the Ghana Football League 1958-2012. ISBN 9988-1-7251-0 , p. 337.
  3. ↑ The farm team idea is out of the question. In: Walliser Bote of July 21, 1995, p. 21.
  4. ↑ Luca Porfido and René Sutter are on the transfer list. In: Thuner Tagblatt of May 30, 1996, p. 20.
  5. ↑ Sports in brief. In: Thuner Tagblatt of June 16, 1998, p. 18.
  6. ^ Beat Haueter: Charles Amoah. In: fcsg-data.ch (June 11, 2014).
  7. ^ Sesa and Amoah Footballer of the Year. In: Freiburger Nachrichten of June 9, 2000, p. 13.
  8. ↑ Amoah leaves, Frei comes to St. Gallen. In: Freiburger Nachrichten of January 13, 2001, p. 11.
  9. ^ Ghana beats Egypt in Cairo. In: ghanaweb.com (November 12, 1999).
  10. ^ Black Stars provisional list out. In: ghanaweb.com (December 30, 1999).
  11. ^ Charles Amoah in the database of national-football-teams.com .
  12. ↑ Tobias Hänni: St. Gallen - Amoah's "Sweet Home". In: tagblatt.ch (October 6, 2012).
  13. ↑ Amoah now works in the brewery. In: blick.ch (April 24, 2013).
  14. ↑ Philipp Braunegger, Martin Schreiner: In the name of the father. In: ballesterer.at (March 8, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Amoah, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amoah, Charles Baye (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Accra