Kwame Karikari

Kwame Karikari
Karikari in AIK's Jersey (April 2013)
Personnel
Surname	Kwame Amponsah Karikari
birthday	January 21, 1992
size	190 cm
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2011	International Allies FC	20 (13)
2011-2014	AIK	43 0(8)
2012	→  Degerfors IF  (loan)	15 0(6)
2013-2014	→  Balıkesirspor  (loan)	23 (11)
2015–	Halmstads BK	12 0(4)
2015	→ Balıkesirspor (loan)	3 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2011–	Ghana U20
1 Only league games are given. As of February 13, 2016

Kwame Amponsah Karikari (born January 21, 1992 ) is a Ghanaian soccer player . The striker made his debut in Swedish professional football in 2011 and has played in Sweden and Turkey since then.

Career

Karikari played for International Allies FC , for which he played in the second division of his home country. There, sports director Jens Andersson and head scout Björn Wesström from the traditional Swedish club AIK watched him and brought the striker to Sweden shortly before the end of the transfer period at the end of March 2011 after one and a half years in the Ghanaian adult sector, where he signed a contract that was valid until 2014. There he replaced the Pontus Engblom and Yussuf Saleh, who had been awarded at the beginning of the year, as the third attacker and was rated by the media as the "Crown Prince" for the African strikers Mohamed Bangura and Ibrahim Teteh Bangura . At the beginning of the 2011 season , he came as a substitute irregularly in the Allsvenskan for a few short appearances. After an injury by Mohamed Bangura, he made his starting line-up debut in July against Gefle IF .

Ibrahim Bangura left the club for Turkey in August, and Karikari succeeded him in the forward position. On August 15, he scored his first competitive goal for AIK in a 1-0 away win at IFK Norrköping with the decisive goal. Until the end of the season he vacillated between bench and starting line-up. Shortly before the start of the following season, the club loaned him to the second division team Degerfors IF , in the Superettan he was one of the regular players until the loan period expired in summer and was one of the club's most successful shooters with six goals this season - only outstripped him within the club until the end of the season Christopher Brandeborn and Peter Samuelsson . Initially with AIK regular players and especially in the surprising 2-0 away win against CSKA Moscow after a 0-1 first leg defeat in the play-off round of the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League as a goal scorer for the 1-0 lead, decisive for the group stage involved, he found himself on the bench more often at the end of the season. Nevertheless, he was also successful in the European Cup against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk as a scorer, despite a 1-0 win over and a 1-1 draw against former European Cup winners PSV Eindhoven , he missed with the team around Martin Kayongo-Mutumba , Daniel Majstorović , Nils- Eric Johansson and Celso Borges as bottom of the group made it through the competition.

Even at the beginning of the 2013 season , Karikari did not get beyond the role of the supplementary player at AIK. At the beginning of July, the club therefore made a loan agreement with the Turkish club Balıkesirspor starting July 22 , which also includes a purchase option. At the end of the season he returned to his previous club despite eleven goals this season with which he contributed to promotion to the Süper Lig . Once again, however, he was only in the second line, until the end of the year he played four games as a substitute in the Allsvenskan season in 2014 .

In mid-January 2015, Karikari moved within Allsvenskan to league competitor Halmstads BK , with whom he signed a two-year contract.

For the 2015/16 season he was loaned again by Balıkesirspor. In December 2015 he left the club.

successes

With Balıkesirspor

• Runner-up in the TFF 1st Lig and promotion to the Süper Lig : 2013/14

Web links

• Kwame Karikari in the aik.se database
• Kwame Karikari in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kwame Karikari in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Kwame Karikari in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Kwame Karikari in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aikfotboll.se: "Kwame Amponsah Karikari till AIK" ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2017 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. (accessed on August 16, 2011) 
2. ↑ expressen.se: "Anfallstalang från Ghana klar för AIK" ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 16, 2011) 
3. ↑ eurosport.se: "AIK lånar ut Karikari - klar för Degerfors" (accessed on January 23, 2013)
4. ↑ aikfotboll.se: "Karikari lånas ut till Turkiet" ( Memento of the original from September 3, 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. (accessed on July 5, 2013) 
5. ↑ fanatik.com.tr: "Balıkesir'den tarihi transfer"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 10, 2013)  
6. ↑ hbk.se: "Karikari är HBK: s nya anfallare" ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 29, 2015)