Gabriel Boakye

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Gabriel Boakye
Personnel
birthday February 26, 1998
place of birth Richmond Hill , Ontario ,  Canada
size 175 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2006-2007 Oakridges SC
2007–2012 Spartacus SC
2012 West Toronto SC
2013 Richmond Hill SC
2013-2015 Toronto FC Academy
2016-2017 Energy Cottbus
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015 Toronto FC II 8 (0)
2016-2018 Energy Cottbus 17 (4)
2018-2020 1. FC Cologne II 35 (1)
2020– 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2013 Canada U-15
2014 Canada U-16
2014-2015 Canada U-17 5 (0)
2016-2017 Canada U-20 3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 11, 2018

Gabriel Boakye (born February 26, 1998 in Richmond Hill , Ontario ) is a Canadian football player of Ghanaian descent in the position of a striker .

Club career

Career start at home

Gabriel Boakye was born on February 26, 1998 to Ghanaian parents - his father comes from Kumasi and his mother from the capital Accra - in the city of Richmond Hill in the Canadian province of Ontario and grew up speaking English and Twi . After playing soccer in his early childhood, he started playing at club level when he was eight. To this end, he joined the local youth training association Oakridges SC in Oak Ridges , a northern suburb of Richmond Hill, in 2006 and was active there until 2007. He then played from 2007 to 2012 at Spartacus SC, about 40 kilometers away in the port city of Toronto . In the summer of 2012 he moved to West Toronto SC , which he belonged to until winter 2012 and then returned to Richmond Hill SC in his hometown for another six months . From here, Boakye moved to the junior division of the major league soccer franchise Toronto FC in the summer of 2013 at the latest - possibly a little earlier .

In the so-called Toronto FC Academy , which in addition to various youth teams also has a men's team consisting mostly of U-20 players, he went through various age groups and was appointed to the second team of Toronto FC for the first time in April 2015 . At Toronto FC II, which played in the then third-rate United Soccer League (USL), Boakye made a total of eight professional league appearances in 2015 . The 17-year-old made his professional debut in the 2-0 defeat by the Pittsburgh Riverhounds on July 9 , when he was used by Jason Bent for the full 90 minutes. He won only one of his eight games with his team and went off the field as a loser seven times. In November 2015 he was nominated as one of two Toronto FC players for the Under-17 Men's Player of the Year award, but failed to win that award. He was nominated for this award in November 2014.

Move to Germany

In summer 2016 he made the leap to Europe and was accepted at the Energie Cottbus Academy . It was only from mid-October that he had the opportunity to take part in the club's games and made his debut for the A-Juniors of Cottbus on October 16 in the 1: 2 away defeat against the youngsters of VfL Wolfsburg , when he was coached by Ronald Prause in the 67th minute of play for Leo rim carrier was substituted. He then quickly developed into a regular player in the A-Juniors and was used in the A-Juniors Bundesliga 2016/17 in a total of 16 league games, where he contributed three goals and two assists and received seven yellow cards . On December 18, 2016, in the last game before the winter break, he sat unused for the first time on the substitute bench of the Energie Cottbus first team, which at that time was based in the fourth-class Regionalliga Nordost . In the first game of the spring he was again on the bench under coach Claus-Dieter Wollitz , but was not used in this 2-0 defeat against the amateurs of RB Leipzig . After another game on the bench, he made his debut in German men's football on March 29, 2017 in a 0-0 away draw against Viktoria Berlin , when he came on the lawn as right winger for Benjamin Förster in the 87th minute of the game . He then sat on the bench in two more regional league games without a stint, but at the same time made his regular appearances in the A-Juniors Bundesliga. With the team he reached second place in the table in the final standings of the Regionalliga Nordost 2016/17 , nine points behind champions and promoted FC Carl Zeiss Jena .

In April 2017, Boakye signed a contract that ran until June 2018, the term of which will automatically be extended to June 2019 in the event of a possible promotion to the 3rd division . Boakye only started the successful 2017/18 season with a short stint against ZFC Meuselwitz at the end of August and only found regular appearances in the regional league team from the middle of the following month. After he had played all the games between the seventh and 19th championship rounds, he was mostly unused on the bench from mid-February until the end of the season in mid-May or was not even part of the squad. During this period, the Canadian, who was mainly used as a center forward, only made two championship appearances. In total, he scored four goals and one assist in 16 league games in 2017/18. With Energie Cottbus at the end of the season he was in first place in the table with 28 wins, five draws and a single defeat, 31 points ahead of the runner-up and thus easily made it to professional football. He also won the 2017/18 Brandenburg Cup with Cottbus, the reigning defending champions, with five goals and two assists in four games making a significant contribution to the successes. Only in the semi-final match against FSV Union Fürstenwalde and the 1-0 final victory over SV Babelsberg 03 was Boakye of Ghanaian origin not used.

In the summer of 2018 he moved to the 2nd team of 1. FC Köln II . After 2 years he went back to the Regionalliga Nordost for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig .

National team career

After moving to the Toronto FC Academy , Boakye, who would be eligible to play for both his native Canada and the country of his parents' birth, received his first call-up to a junior national team of the Canadian Soccer Association in 2013 . Under coach António "Tony" Fonseca he was a member of the Canadian U-15 selection . In the following year, further missions took place in the U-16 team of Canada , before he found the breakthrough in the Canadian U-17 team in the same year . The following February and March, he was part of the 20-member Canadian player selection, which at the CONCACAF U-17 Championship of 2015 in Honduras participated. Chosen by coach Rob Gale , he took part in the finals under coach Sean Fleming and played his first official international match on February 28 in a 3-1 win over Haiti . Then he came to the tournament taking place in San Pedro Sula in three of the other four group games used; the young attacking player only missed the game against St. Lucia . In the end, Canada finished second in Group B, one point behind Mexico, and had to go to the play-offs together with third-placed ( Costa Rica ) and second and third-placed Group A ( Jamaica and the United States ). In these Boakye came in when his team lost 3-0 to Costa Rica.

In the summer of 2015, the striker, who had meanwhile made his professional debut, was brought into the Canadian U-20 national team, but only made his official international debut around two years later. Before that, he was selected several times for training camps and friendly international matches. In February 2017 he was appointed by nunmehrigen U-20 coach Rob Gale in the 20-man squad for the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship of 2017 convened. At the finals in Costa Rica , for which the Canadians had automatically qualified, the offensive player was used in all three group games of the Canadians. With just one win from these three games, Canada finished third in Group A behind Honduras (second) and Mexico (first) and retired early from the current tournament.

successes

with Energie Cottbus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TFC II adds three players from the Academy , accessed on August 11, 2018
  2. ↑ USL Players Nominated For Canada Soccer Awards , accessed August 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Chung, Faulknor named 2015 Canadian U-17 Players of the Year , accessed August 11, 2018
  4. ↑ Nominees announced for 2014 Canada Soccer player awards , accessed August 11, 2018
  5. ↑ Gabriel Boakye on the official website of the Museum von Energie Cottbus , accessed on August 11, 2018
  6. ↑ VfL Wolfsburg U-19 - Energie Cottbus U-19 (2: 1) in the DFB data center , accessed on August 11, 2018
  7. ↑ FC ENERGIE BINDET GABRIEL BOAKYE , accessed on August 11, 2018
  8. ↑ Ghanaian Gabriel Boakye nominated for Best Canada U17 Player Award , accessed on August 11, 2018
  9. ↑ Canada M15 gathers for camp in Florida , accessed August 11, 2018
  10. ↑ Canada M16 heading to Montaigu, France , accessed on August 11, 2018
  11. ↑ Canada announces squad for CONCACAF Men's Under-20 Championship , accessed August 11, 2018
  12. ↑ Canada U-20 team trains in Toronto on road to Korea Republic 2017 , accessed August 11, 2018
  13. ^ Next Canada M20 group heads to Mexico for camp and international matches , accessed August 11, 2018
  14. ^ Canada Soccer selects players for England youth friendly , accessed on August 11, 2018
  15. ↑ Canada Soccer announces Men's U-20 squad for Honduras , accessed August 11, 2018
  16. ↑ Canada names young squad for CONCACAF U-20 Championship , accessed August 11, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Boakye, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond Hill , Ontario , Canada