James Kwesi Appiah
| Kwesi Appiah | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | James Kwesi Appiah | |
| birthday | August 9, 1959 | |
| place of birth | Sunyani , Ghana | |
| position | Defense | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1979-1982 | Prestea Mine Stars | |
| 1982-1993 | Asante Kotoko | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1980-1982 | Ghana U-23 | |
| 1981-1992 | Ghana | at least 12 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1993-1995 | Asante Kotoko (Assistant Trainer) | |
| 1995-1996 | Asante Kotoko | |
| 1999-2001 | Ghana (assistant coach) | |
| 2008–2012 | Ghana (assistant coach) | |
| 2010 | Ghana (interim) | |
| 2011 | Ghana U-23 | |
| 2012-2014 | Ghana | |
| 2014-2017 | Al Khartoum SC | |
| 2017-2020 | Ghana | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
(James) Kwesi Appiah (also (James) Akwasi Appiah ; born August 9, 1959 in Sunyani ) is a Ghanaian soccer coach and former soccer player . From April 2012 to November 2014 and from April 2017 to January 2020 he was the coach of the Ghanaian national team .
Career
Career as a player
Appiah began his playing career in 1979 with the Prestea Mine Stars , from where he moved to Asante Kotoko in 1982 . After winning the African Cup of Champions Club in 1983 with Kotoko, the defender received an offer from a club from Turin , which he refused. Between 1982 and Appiahs end of career with Asante Kotoko 1993, the club won eight national championships (1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991-1993), was a cup winner in 1984 , won the SWAG Cup six times in a row between 1988 and 1993 and was also two more times (1982, 1993) in the final of the African Cup of Champions Club. Between 1980 and 1982 Appiah played in the U-23 national team , the "Black Meteors", at times he was team captain . 1981 Appiah was first used in the senior national team, with which he won the African Championship in 1982 , but remained there without use. There is evidence of a deployment in 1983, a game at the African Cup of Nations in 1984 and four appearances in 1988. In 1990 Appiah was used in two World Cup qualifiers. In 1992 he ended his national team career after playing four games at the African Cup of Nations and reaching the final with the team. The journalist Thomas Freeman Yeboah could not prove any goals Appiah in the jersey of the "Black Stars" during a research in 2013.
Career as a coach
After the end of his playing career, Appiah began in 1993 as an assistant coach at Asante Kotoko, where he supported Malik Jabir , Abubakar Ouattara and Burkhard Ziese . In 1995/96 he temporarily took over the post of head coach. Appiah then went to the United Kingdom , where he trained as a coach. In 1999 he returned from Europe and worked until 2001 as an assistant to the Ghanaian national coach Cecil Jones Attuquayefio . After the national team failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, Appiah moved with his family back to London , organized tournaments for African teams in the United Kingdom and trained as a football coach. After returning to his home country in 2008, Appiah worked until 2010 under Milovan Rajevac and until 2012 under Goran Stevanović as assistant coach of the senior national team. At the African Championships in 2010 and 2012, the "Black Stars" achieved second and fourth place respectively, and at the 2010 World Cup , the Ghanaian national team made it to the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time. In the transition period between Rajevac and Stevanović Appiah looked after the national team in October and November 2010 at the games against Sudan and Saudi Arabia as an interim coach . In mid-2011 Appiah took over the management of the U-23 national team, which he led to winning the football tournament of the Pan-African Games 2011 . On April 8, 2012 Appiah was presented by the Ghana Football Association as the successor to the Serb Goran Stevanović as the full-time coach of the Ghana's senior team; he signed a two-year contract. After reaching fourth place at the 2013 African Championship, the “Black Stars” qualified for the 2014 World Championship on November 17, 2013 . James Appiah's contract as national coach was extended to July 2016 three weeks before the World Cup in Brazil .
In December 2014 he became the coach of the Sudanese club Al Khartoum SC .
In April 2017 he was again coach of the national team. In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup , his team failed due to Egypt and Uganda . Like them, the Ghanaians only lost one game, but could only win one game. At the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations , he led the team to the round of 16, where they were eliminated on penalties against Tunisia . In the qualification for the African Nations Cup 2020 , Ghana failed to Burkina Faso in autumn 2019 . He was released in January 2020.
Private
Appiah received an honorary doctorate in sports psychology from Dayspring Christian University in Brookhaven on April 12, 2014 for being the first local coach to lead the Ghanaian national team to a world championship . Appiah is the namesake of the Kwasi Appiah Foundation , is married and has three children.
The real first name of the Ghanaian is James. As a youth player, however, he was incorrectly registered as Kwesi Appiah in his hometown of Sunyani and is carried under this name during his playing career.
Individual evidence
- ↑ June 30 (or 29) June 1960 is often given as the date of birth and Kumasi as the place of birth (as is the case with National Football Teams , accessed on May 13, 2014), but without giving any evidence for this claim.
- ↑ a b c d e f Biography ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: kwasiappiah.com , accessed May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Ghana - List of Cup Winners (March 6, 2014), in: rsssf.com , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ From The Archives ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (August 28, 2008), in: kenbediako.com , accessed May 13, 2014.
- ^ African Nations Cup 1982 - Match Details (August 22, 2013), in: rsssf.com , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ^ South Korea International Matches - Details 1980–1984 (March 5, 2005), in: rsssf.com , accessed May 13, 2014.
- ^ African Nations Cup 1984 - Final Tournament Details (June 12, 2009), in: rsssf.com , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ International Matches 1988 - Africa (February 2, 2005), in: rsssf.com , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Kwasi APPIAH ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: fifa.com , accessed May 13, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Mayele The Player, Kwasi Appiah The Coach (May 3, 2012), in: modernghana.com , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) - List of International Matches (December 23, 2013), in: modernghana.com , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ a b 2014 World Cup: Ten things about Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah You did not know (April 9, 2014), in: modernghana.com , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Appiah calls up 20-man Ghana squad ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (September 24, 2010), in: ghanafa.org , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Black Stars hope to finish year on a high ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (November 17, 2010), in: ghanafa.org , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Appiah looks for Meteors spark ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (September 13, 2011), in: ghanafa.org , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Kwesi Appiah named as Ghana coach ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (April 9, 2012), in: ghanafa.org , accessed May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Appiah reveals player call-up policy ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (April 17, 2012), in: ghanafa.org , accessed May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Ghana are 25th team to confirm place in Brazil ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (November 19, 2013), in: ghanafa.org , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Appiah motivated by new contract (May 26, 2014), in: ghanaweb.com , accessed on May 26, 2014.
- ↑ bbc.com: Former Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah takes over at SC Khartoum
- ↑ bbc.com: Ghana re-appoint Kwesi Appiah as coach
- ↑ bbc.com: Ghana's FA ousts national team coaches at all levels
- ↑ GFA congratulates Appiah over honorary doctorate award ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (April 14, 2014), in: ghanafa.org , accessed on May 13, 2014.
- ↑ Kwesi Appiah gives back ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (January 11, 2014), in: allsports.com.gh , accessed May 13, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appiah, James Kwesi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Appiah, James (real name); Appiah, James Akwasi; Appiah, Kwesi; Appiah, Akwasi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ghanaian soccer player and soccer coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sunyani , Ghana |