Ibrahim Tanko

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Ibrahim Tanko
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Ibrahim Tanko
Personnel
birthday July 25, 1977
place of birth Kumasi ,  Ghana
size 180 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1994 King Faisal Babes
1994-2000 Borussia Dortmund 52 (3)
2001-2007 Sc freiburg 106 (5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1996-2004 Ghana 10 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2007-2009 SC Freiburg II ( assistant coach )
2009-2010 Urawa Red Diamonds (Assistant Trainer)
2011–2012 1. FC Köln (assistant coach)
2013-2015 Cameroon (assistant coach)
since November 2018 Ghana U23 (coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Ibrahim Tanko (born July 25, 1977 in Kumasi ) is a former Ghanaian professional footballer (position: Sturm ) and today's football coach . Since 2002 Tanko has had both Ghanaian and German citizenship ; as a national player he was only in action for Ghana .

Career as a player

Tanko came to Borussia Dortmund at the age of 17 , at which time he was considered one of the greatest talents in German football. Together with the then 18-year-old Lars Ricken , he formed the so-called “baby tower” in his first Bundesliga season, which replaced long-time players like Karl-Heinz Riedle and Stéphane Chapuisat in the storm position and at the end of the 1994/95 season German champions has been. Tanko was on the field 14 times and scored a goal. In the seven seasons that he completed for BVB, however, he was never finally able to prevail.

In the 2000/01 season, THC was found in Tanko's blood during a doping test, whereupon he admitted to having used marijuana with friends. Borussia Dortmund then terminated his contract. In the winter of the same season, Tanko moved to SC Freiburg .

When he made his debut, Tanko was the youngest outfield player in the history of the Bundesliga at the age of 17 , only the Frankfurt goalkeeper Jürgen Friedl was younger when he made his debut. In 2005 both were undercut by Nuri Şahin from Dortmund . In the ranking of the youngest goal scorers (17 years 250 days) he was in seventh place in June 2020 behind Florian Wirtz , Sahin, Julian Draxler , Timo Werner , Christian Pulisic and Ricken. He won the German soccer championship with Borussia Dortmund in 1994/95 and 1995/96 and is still the youngest champion player (17 years 327 days) since the introduction of the Bundesliga.

During his active career he also ran for the Ghanaian national team and took part in the 1996 African Cup of Nations, where the selection finished fourth. His last international appearances were in the qualifying games for the 2006 World Cup .

Career as a coach

After the end of the 2006/07 season, in which he played only one game, he ended his playing career. Since then he has been assistant coach of the second team at SC Freiburg. In March 2009 he and Karsten Neitzel joined the Urawa Red Diamonds as Volker Finke's assistant coach . The contracts with the coaches, which expired at the end of 2010, were not extended by the Japanese club management. At the start of the 2011/12 Bundesliga season, Tanko followed Volker Finke and joined the 1. FC Köln coaching team. With the dismissal of head coach Ståle Solbakken , Tanko's engagement there was also ended. From 2013 to 2015 Tanko was the assistant coach of the Cameroonian national soccer team under coach Volker Finke.

Tanko has been the coach of Ghana's U23 national team since November 29, 2018 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malte Oberschelp : The SC Freiburg successfully pretends that there has never been a Kehl case: the caravan continues to play. In: berliner-zeitung.de . February 2, 2002, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ibrahim Tanko banned for doping. In: berliner-zeitung.de. February 16, 2001, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ After a doping case: BVB terminates the contract with Tanko. In: RP Online . January 3, 2001, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Youngest Bundesliga scorers: Dortmund meet early. In: Spiegel Online . June 6, 2020, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Going a separate way from Team Manager Finke. Urawa Red Diamonds, November 29, 2010, accessed April 6, 2015 .
  6. ↑ New coaching staff at 1. FC Köln. (No longer available online.) 1. FC Cologne, June 17, 2011, formerly the original ; accessed on June 7, 2020 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fc-koeln.de
  7. ↑ Ngime Epie: Meet Tanko, Finke's new assistant. In: starafrica.com. June 5, 2013, archived from the original on December 30, 2013 ; accessed on June 7, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ Ibrahim Tanko. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tanko, Ibrahim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Ghanaian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kumasi , Ghana