Anthony Yeboah

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Tony Yeboah
Personnel
Surname Anthony Yeboah
birthday June 6, 1966
place of birth Kumasi ,  Ghana
size 184 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1982 Asante Kotoko
1983-1986 Kumasi Cornerstone
1986-1988 Okwawu United
1988-1990 1. FC Saarbrücken 65 (26)
1990-1995 Eintracht Frankfurt 123 (68)
1995-1997 Leeds United 48 (25)
1997-2001 Hamburger SV 100 (28)
2001-2002 Al-Ittihad 22 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1985-1997 Ghana 59 (26)
1 Only league games are given.

Anthony "Tony" Yeboah (born June 6, 1966 in Kumasi ) is a former Ghanaian soccer player . In the Bundesliga , the striker played for Eintracht Frankfurt and Hamburger SV .

Career

Yeboah's first stop in German professional football was the second division 1. FC Saarbrücken from summer 1988 , for which he scored 26 goals in a total of 65 league games. The striker then had his best time at Eintracht Frankfurt: Between 1990 and the end of 1994, Yeboah played 123 Bundesliga games in the Hessen jersey, in which he scored 68 goals. In 1993 and 1994 he was the top scorer .

After quarrels with the then Eintracht coach Jupp Heynckes , who had suspended Yeboah as well as his teammates Jay-Jay Okocha and Maurizio Gaudino from play and training, the Ghanaian moved to Leeds United in the English Premier League at the beginning of 1995 . There he quickly became a crowd favorite, because in the second half of the current season he scored 13 times in 16 games. In the following series he had another twelve goals and was voted Player of the Year in Leeds .

After Yeboah fell out of favor with Leeds' team manager George Graham in 1997 because of a knee injury and numerous secondings to the Ghanaian national team, Bundesliga club Hamburger SV brought him back to Germany. By September 2001 he had made 100 Bundesliga appearances and 28 goals at HSV. In the 1999/2000 season, Yeboah played a key role in the Hanseatic League's entry into the Champions League . His active career, which was accompanied by players' agent Joachim Leukel as a personal advisor, ended with Al-Ittihad in the Qatar Stars League .

Since the end of his career as a football player in 2002, Yeboah has worked with his cousin, the former Mike Osei from Mainz , and with Michael Farbmacher as a player agent for the company Anthony Yeboah Sportpromotion . Together with Abédi Pelé, he also advises the Ghanaian Football Association. Yeboah owns and operates two hotels with his family, one in Ghana's capital Accra and one in his native city of Kumasi.

On November 3rd, 2008 he took over the presidency of Bechem Chelsea , promoted to the Premier League Ghana.

In 2012, Yeboah revealed his true date of birth. According to this, he is exactly two years younger than he stated and was thus born in 1966 instead of the previously stated year of birth 1964. He justified this with the fact that he could play for the men in Ghana as a 17-year-old.

Honors

In 1992 and 1995, Yeboah was named Ghana's Footballer of the Year .

Since January 23, 2013, an image of Anthony Yeboah has adorned one of the twelve “Pillars of Unity” in the Willy-Brandt-Platz underground station in Frankfurt.

The initiative “A Frankfurt house wall becomes a symbol for tolerance” was dedicated in June 2014 to the design of a house facade in honor of Anthony Yeboah. This is located near the Frankfurt-Niederrad train station and shows Anthony Yeboah and the saying “We are ashamed of all who scream against us”, which Yeboah formulated in an open letter in 1990 together with Souleyman Sané and Anthony Baffoe . The wall is a visible sign of tolerance and against discrimination.

Trivia

  • At the beginning of the 1990s , Ghana 's national coach Otto Pfister commented on Yeboah's unclear date of birth : "There is only one thing that can help: sawing open the leg and counting the annual rings."
  • The sketch "Anthony Sabini" by the comedy duo Badesalz is dedicated to Anthony Yeboah .
  • After retiring from his career, Yeboah became a professional golfer ( handicap 14) in his home country of Ghana , including second place in the Ashfoam Trophy 2015 at the BEIGE Village Golf Resort & Spa in Nkawkaw .
  • His nephew Kelvin (* 2000) is also a soccer player.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is actually ... Anthony Yeboah? In: stern . January 28, 2006, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Michael Jahn: The players' agents should separate the wheat from the chaff: They are in the dark. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 5, 1995, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ "The Manager Court" by Thomas Bender / Ulrich Kühne-Helmessen, Sport-Bild from February 24, 1993, p. 14f.
  4. ↑ Joachim Leukel: "Tony was tricked". (No longer available online.) In: Rheinische Post . August 15, 2000, archived from the original on January 16, 2010 ; accessed on June 16, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  5. ↑ Anthony Yeboah: Age Mystery Solved. In: BZ February 20, 2012, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Website of the campaign “Pillars of Unity” ( memento of the original from June 17, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / saeulen-der-eintracht.de
  7. ↑ Video on the design of the Tony Yeboah house
  8. ↑ Yeboah reveals the secret: He is 45 years old ( memento of the original from October 10, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fnp.de
  9. ^ Ex-Ghana striker, Anthony Yeboah, now a golfer, was denied victory by Joshua Armah in the July edition of Ashfoam Monthly Golf Medal Tournament
  10. ↑ Confession: Kelvin Yeboah is not the son of Anthony Yeboah kurier.at, on October 15, 2019, accessed on October 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Yeboah, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yeboah, Tony (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Kumasi , Ghana