Jonathan Mensah

Jonathan Mensah
Jonathan Mensah in September 2012
Personnel
birthday	July 13, 1990
place of birth	Accra ,  Ghana
size	188 cm
position	Central defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2008	Ashanti gold	29 (2)
2008-2009	Free State Stars	39 (2)
2010-2011	Udinese Calcio	0 (0)
2010	→  Granada CF  (loan)	15 (1)
2011-2015	FC Evian Thonon Gaillard	49 (2)
2016	Anzhi Makhachkala	15 (0)
2017–	Columbus crew
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	Ghana U20
2010–	Ghana	52 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 3, 2017 2 As of June 5, 2016

Jonathan Mensah (born July 13, 1990 in Accra ) is a Ghanaian soccer player who has been under contract with the American club Columbus Crew since January 2017 .

Career

society

Mensahs played in his youth for Ashanti Gold from Obuasi and belonged to the Ghanaian junior national teams. He belongs to the successful generation that won the African Junior Cup in 2009 and then the FIFA U-20 World Cup.

At the age of almost 18 he moved to South Africa, where he played for the Free State Stars from Bethlehem in the country's top division . After the U-20 success, European clubs also showed interest in the young central defender. A move to Panathinaikos Athens failed, however. Finally, he was signed by Udinese Calcio from Italy in early 2010 , but they immediately loaned him to Spain to Granada CF. There he played 15 games for the Spanish second division club. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, he moved for an undisclosed transfer fee to the French promoted FC Évian Thonon Gaillard .

National team

Mensah played for the Ghanaian U-20 team , which won the U-20 World Cup in 2009 . On January 5, 2010, Jonathan Mensah was also on the field for the senior national team of Ghana for the first time. In the preparatory games for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , he was used several times and included in the African World Cup squad . At the World Cup, he came to three missions.

Web links

• Jonathan Mensah in the database of FIFA (English)
• Portrait at goal.com
• Jonathan Mensah in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Jonathan Mensah in the database of kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jonathan Mensah Decides To Stay At Free State Stars , goal.com, August 13, 2009
2. ↑ Mensah joins Granada ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2011 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. , African Soccer Union