Ibrahim Sunday

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Ibrahim Sunday
Personnel
Surname Ibrahim Sunday
birthday July 22, 1944
place of birth Koforidua ,  Ghana
size 168 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1975 Asante Kotoko FC
1975-1977 SV Werder Bremen 1 (0)
1977-1980 VSK Osterholz-Scharmbeck
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1966-1975 Ghana 20 (8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
~ 1983 Asante Kotoko FC
Abuakwa Susubiribi
Ashanti Gold SC
FC 105 Libreville
~ 1992 Africa Sports National
-2008 Zaytuna FC
1 Only league games are given.

Ibrahim "Ibi" Sunday (born July 22, 1944 in Koforidua ) is a former Ghanaian football player and current coach .

Athletic career

In the clubs

Midfielder Sunday began his career at Kumasi- based Asante Kotoko FC and quickly earned the respect of teammates and coaches to become the team captain. With the club he won several championship titles and even the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1970 against Tout Puissant Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of the Congo . In the final second leg in front of 120,000 spectators at the Stade Tata Raphaël in Kinshasa , he prepared both goals for a 2-1 victory. A year later, the magazine named him France Football to African Footballer of the Year .

In 1975 Sunday moved to SV Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga . However, there he could not prevail. Nevertheless, he made history on June 12, 1976, when coach Otto Rehhagel sent him on the 34th matchday of the season in the 2-0 lost game at Rot-Weiss Essen for the second half instead of Jürgen Röber and thus Sunday became the first African to play in the Bundesliga. On August 7th of the same year he also played in the DFB Cup : In the first round match against Südwest Ludwigshafen (4-0), when the final score had already been reached, he was substituted in for striker Werner Görts in the 72nd minute . It was to be his last game for Werder Bremen, he only had 63 minutes of playing time.

Sunday then ended his active career between 1977 and 1980 at VSK Osterholz-Scharmbeck in the immediate vicinity of Bremen, which was playing in the district league at the time .

In the national team

Sunday was called up for the first time in Ghana's national team in 1966. His first official international tournament was the Africa Cup of Nations in 1968 , in which he scored a decisive goal for advancement in the semifinals (4-3 aet) against Ivory Coast . However, they lost the final against the Democratic Republic of the Congo 0-1. Two years later, Sunday also took part in the 1970 African Cup; in the remake of the semifinals of 1968 (2: 1 a. Once again, however, the final was lost - this time with 0: 1 against hosts Sudan . Ghana could not qualify for the tournaments in 1972 and 1974 .

Instead, Sunday took part with the national team in the soccer tournament of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . With three defeats, Ghana finished in the last of four places in the table at the end of the first group stage. With a goal difference of 1:11, Sunday had contributed the only goal in the game against Colombia .

Coaching career

While he was playing for VSK Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Sunday completed coaching courses in Barsinghausen , Hennef and Cologne and graduated as a certified soccer teacher with the highest DFB license. After returning home he coached, among other things, his former club Asante Kotoko FC , with which he was able to win the African Cup of Champions Clubs again in 1983. In the final, the Egyptian representative al Ahly SC - today's record winner of this competition - was defeated. He then worked for the Ghanaian clubs Abuakwa Susubiribi and Ashanti Gold SC as well as FC 105 Libreville from the Gabonese capital before he was signed by the Ivorian top club Africa Sports National . Under his leadership, the team secured the African Cup Winners' Cup against Vital'O FC from Burundi in 1992 and defeated the Moroccan team Wydad AC in the game for the CAF Super Cup the following year .

Ibrahim Sunday still regularly takes part in charity or so-called "legend games" - for example together with Anthony Yeboah , Anthony Baffoe and Samuel Kuffour . Most recently (at least from 2007 to 2010) he headed the MTN Soccer Academy in Accra .

successes

As a player

As a trainer (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile at the DFB
personal data
SURNAME Sunday, Ibrahim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sunday, Ibi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Koforidua , Ghana