Junior Agogo

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Junior Agogo
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Junior Agogo (2008)
Personnel
Surname Manuel Agogo
birthday 1st August 1979
place of birth Accra ,  Ghana
date of death 22nd August 2019
Place of death London ,  England
size 178 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1995-1997 Sheffield Wednesday
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997-2000 Sheffield Wednesday 2 0(0)
1999 →  Oldham Athletic  (loan) 2 0(0)
1999 →  Chester City  (loan) 10 0(6)
1999 →  Chesterfield FC  (loan) 4 0(0)
1999-2000 →  Lincoln City  (loan) 3 0(1)
2000 Chicago Fire 1 0(0)
2000-2001 Colorado Rapids 32 (11)
2001-2002 San Jose Earthquakes 14 0(4)
2002 Queens Park Rangers 2 0(0)
2002-2003 Barnet FC 40 (20)
2003-2006 Bristol Rovers 126 (41)
2006-2008 Nottingham Forest 64 (20)
2008-2009 Zamalek SC 11 0(3)
2009-2011 Apollon Limassol 23 0(6)
2011–2012 Hibernian Edinburgh 12 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2003 England National Game XI 3 0(0)
2006-2009 Ghana 27 (12)
1 Only league games are given.

Manuel "Junior" Agogo (born August 1, 1979 in Accra ; † August 22, 2019 in London , England ) was a Ghanaian football player . The striker , who took part in the 2008 African Cup of Nations with the Ghanaian national team , has played in England, the United States, Egypt and Cyprus as well as Scotland during his career.

Career

Career start

Agogo, who was born in Ghana, lived temporarily with his family abroad, but returned to his home country for further schooling. There he attended St. Augustine's College in Cape Coast . However, he broke off his training early to follow his mother to Great Britain . In north-west London he discovered playing football for himself.

Agogo's talent caught the people in charge of Sheffield Wednesday , who brought him to Yorkshire as a junior player in 1995 . He quickly developed into a regular in the club's reserve team and came at the start of the 1997/98 season at the away game at Newcastle United for his first professional appearance in the Premier League . Several injuries slowed him down and prevented further games. After recovery, he was only one of the supplementary players under coach Danny Wilson . Therefore, the club briefly awarded him in 1999 to the lower class clubs Oldham Athletic , Chester City , Chesterfield FC and Lincoln City .

Moved to the United States

After Agogo had not been able to prevail in the Premier League, he changed clubs. In February 2000, he joined the Chicago Fire in the North American Major League Soccer . A short time later, the club committed Christo Stoitschkow and after only one game, the club therefore gave Agogo directly again, so that he moved on within the league to Colorado Rapids .

At the side of Paul Bravo , Jorge Dely Valdés and Marcelo Balboa , Agogo showed his scoring risk in the 2000 season and was the top scorer of the team supervised by Glenn Myernick with ten goals this season . As third in the Western Division , she moved into the play-off games, but failed in the quarter-finals at the Kansas City Wizards . The following year Tim Hankinson took over the coaching office. Under his leadership there was a more defensive orientation and Agogo was often only a substitute. By the summer he made ten league games, but only scored one goal of the season.

In June 2001, the San José Earthquakes committed Agogo, which in return gave Chris Carrieri . Although he was more successful as a goalscorer with four goals this season by the end of the year, he hardly got beyond the role of supplementary player at the California club and was only in six of his 14 appearances in the starting lineup. At the end of the season, the club separated from him.

Return to England

After returning to England, Agogo kept fit in training at the London club Queens Park Rangers . Although not intended for play in the first team, the club registered him with the Football League to enable him to play in the reserve. After several injury-related failures, he ultimately had to help out Ian Holloway in the first team. By the end of the season he had two short appearances as a substitute in the Second Division .

Agogo joined Barnet FC in Conference National that summer . For the club, he scored twenty goals this season and thus attracted higher class attention. In the summer of 2003 he returned to league football and joined the Bristol Rovers in the Third Division . Slowed down by an injury in the first year, he only showed his scoring qualities in the 2004/05 season, when he again scored twenty goals this season. After he drew attention to himself in the following season with 16 goals, Nottingham Forest , among others, tried to get a commitment. He also played for his country's national team.

At the beginning of the 2006/07 season, Agogo was still under contract with the Bristol Rovers before the two clubs had reached an agreement on a move on August 30, 2006 just before the end of the transfer period. In the third-rate Football League One , he contributed with seven goals this season to ensure that the club under the new coach Colin Calderwood ended the season in fourth place in the table and moved into the relegation games for promotion to the second division. There the team failed in the semi-finals after a 2-0 away win at Yeovil Town at home with a 2-5 defeat after extra time. In the following season he distinguished himself on the side of Julian Bennett , Kris Commons , James Perch and Wes Morgan with 13 goals as the club's best internal goalscorer. As second in the table, the club returned to the second division.

Stations in the Mediterranean

Despite the rise, Agogo left Nottingham Forest and moved across national borders. At the Egyptian club Zamalek SC he signed a three-year contract in July 2008. The stay in African professional football was not very successful. Therefore, after only one season, he moved to Apollon Limassol in Cyprus . Agogo then played in Scotland with Hibernian Edinburgh from 2011 to 2012 before retiring.

death

In 2015 Agogo suffered a heart attack , which has since resulted in health restrictions in his everyday life. The cause of his sudden death is still unclear.

National team

In May 2006 Agogo was appointed to the squad of the Ghanaian national team and came to a deployment. However, he missed participation in the 2006 World Cup . Agogo was nominated for the African Cup of Nations in 2008 in his home country and was part of the Black Stars' team in this tournament .

Web links

Commons : Manuel Agogo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Breaking News: Ex-Ghana star Junior Agogo dies at age 40. In: ghanasoccernet.com. August 22, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hadiza Billa Quansah: Manuel Junior Agogo - Thee Funky Player. In: modernghana.com. February 27, 2008, accessed June 5, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Robert Wagman: RFK Stadium in Washington is confirmed as MLS Cup 2000 site. In: SoccerTimes. February 24, 2000, archived from the original on November 29, 2011 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 (English).
  4. ↑ Holloway includes Agogo in squad for Swindon. In: qpr.co.uk. November 17, 2004, archived from the original on August 5, 2012 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 (English).
  5. ↑ Junior's Ready To Agogo. In: nottinghamforest.co.uk. August 30, 2006, archived from the original on August 5, 2012 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 (English).
  6. ↑ Rich Brown: Junior Agogo swaps Nottingham Forest for El Zamalek of the Egyptian Premier League. In: telegraph.co.uk . July 3, 2008, accessed June 5, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Ibrahim Sannie: Agogo clinches Cyprus deal. In: bbc.co.uk . August 5, 2009, accessed on August 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Mourning for Junior Agogo: Ex-national player of Ghana dies at the age of 40. In: Sportbuzzer. August 22, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Agogo, junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agogo, Manuel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1st August 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Accra , Ghana
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2019
Place of death London , UK