Sulley Muntari

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Sulley Muntari
Sulley Muntari - Inter Milan (1) .jpg
Muntari at Inter Milan (2009)
Personnel
Surname Suleyman Ali Muntari
birthday August 27, 1984
place of birth Konongo ,  Ghana
size 179 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
2000-2002 Liberty professionals
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002-2007 Udinese Calcio 125 0(8)
2007-2008 Portsmouth FC 29 0(4)
2008–2012 Inter Milan 66 0(6)
2011 →  Sunderland AFC  (loan) 9 0(0)
2012-2015 AC Milan 70 (11)
2015-2016 Ittihad FC 18 0(2)
2017 Delfino Pescara 1936 9 0(1)
2018 Deportivo La Coruña 4 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2014 Ghana 84 (21)
1 Only league games are given.
As of September 29, 2018

Suleyman Ali "Sulley" Muntari (born August 27, 1984 in Konongo ) is a Ghanaian soccer player .

He plays in defensive and central midfield, but can also be used on the left wing.

Career

In the club

Muntari in the dress of Inter Milan (2009)

For the 2002/03 season, the then 18-year-old Muntari moved from the Liberty Professionals from Ghana to the Serie A club Udinese Calcio .

In the summer of 2006 he wanted to move to the Premier League , preferably to Manchester United . In the winter of 2007, some English and Italian clubs like AC Milan showed interest in the Ghanaian midfielder. Udinese Calcio, however, turned down an offer of over eleven million euros in winter. In the summer of 2007 Muntari moved to Portsmouth FC for the equivalent of ten million euros . He signed a contract until 2012. In 2008 he won the FA Cup with Portsmouth .

In the summer of 2008 Muntari moved back to Italy to Inter Milan for 14 million euros . He signed a five-year contract. After Muntari had not gotten beyond the role of a substitute player at Inter, he was loaned out to AFC Sunderland for six months in January 2011 . There he met John Mensah and Asamoah Gyan , with whom he also plays in the Ghanaian national team.

On January 31, 2012, Inter Milan loaned Muntari to AC Milan until the end of the season . He later received a follow-up contract for two years until June 30, 2014.

On June 30, 2015 it was announced that Muntari's contract with AC Milan had been terminated by mutual agreement.

He has been under contract with Ittihad FC since July 27, 2015 . His contract there is for two years. However, the contract was terminated in July 2016.

Muntari was looking for a club until January 2017 before joining the Italian first division club Delfino Pescara in 1936 . He completed only 9 missions for the second division.

After another long period of absence, he signed with Deportivo La Coruña on February 22, 2018 .

In the national team

Muntari on a free kick against Nigeria (2008)

Muntari made his debut in the Ghanaian national team on May 17, 2002 in a friendly against Slovenia . At the 2006 World Cup in Germany , he scored the important 2-0 win against the Czech Republic , but his second yellow card prevented him from taking part in the 2-1 win against the USA . Nevertheless, he had an enormous part in Ghana's reaching the round of 16, which was lost to Brazil .

In the opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations in 2008 against Guinea , Muntari scored the decisive 2-1 for Ghana in stoppage time and finished third with his national team. For disciplinary reasons he was not taken into account for the Africa Cup 2010.

In the test before the 2010 World Cup against the Netherlands (1: 4), there was a dispute on the field between Muntari and Hans Sarpei , which Muntari asked for a more team-friendly style of play. At the 2010 World Cup, Muntari only played a thirteen-minute match against Australia in the first two group matches. After being abusive to the coach because of this, he was banned from the squad for a short time before the last group game. After an apology from Muntari, however, this decision was reversed and he came back to a brief assignment in the round of 16 when he defeated the USA. In the quarter-finals against Uruguay , he was used for the first time from the start and also scored the 1-0 in the meantime. Ghana were unfortunately eliminated on penalties and missed the chance to become the first African team to advance to a World Cup semi-final.

On May 13, 2014, he was appointed to the squad of the Ghanaian national soccer team for the 2014 World Cup . After a dispute with an association official, he was suspended indefinitely by the Ghanaian association on June 26, 2014, and removed from the squad.

titles and achievements

As a national player

With the club

Web links

Commons : Sulley Muntari  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian Hawkey: Suleyman Ali Muntari is finding his own way to his goals . In: The National , April 7, 2011, accessed May 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ Inters Sulley Muntari plays for Sunderland in the second half of the season . Goal.com , January 30, 2011, accessed May 1, 2017.
  3. ^ Milan-Muntari: addio. Risolto il contratto . Corriere dello Sport , June 3, 2015, accessed May 1, 2017 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Muntari changes to Al-Ittihad Jeddah . transfermarkt.de , July 27, 2015, accessed on May 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ Sidnei y Muntari, novedades en la lista de convocados en la que también está Adrián. In: rcdeportivo.es. Deportivo La Coruña , accessed on February 22, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hardy Hasselbruch: U-turn! Muntari back in the squad . kicker online , June 21, 2010, accessed May 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ Ghana's Boateng taunts - and is there . kicker online , May 12, 2014, accessed May 1, 2017.
  8. ^ Sulley Muntari suspended indefinitely from national team. Ghana Football Association , June 26, 2014, archived from the original on June 29, 2014 ; accessed on May 1, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Muntari, Sulley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muntari, Sulley Ali (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Konongo , Ghana