Awudu Issaka
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Awudu Issaka | ||
| Date of birth | 26 June 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Sunyani, Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993 | Asante Kotoko | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1995 | |||
| 1995–1996 | Anderlecht | 0 | (0) |
| 1996–1998 | Auxerre[2] | 0 | (0) |
| 1998–2003 | 1860 Munich II | ||
| 1999 | 1860 Munich | 1 | (0) |
| 2003–2005 | |||
| 2005–2006 | Liberty Professionals | ||
| 2006–2011 | Tema Youth | ||
| National team | |||
| 1995 | Ghana U-17 | ||
| 1997 | Ghana U-20 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Awudu Issaka (born 26 June 1979) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.[3]
Club career[]
Issaka was born in Sunyani. He started playing football at the youth teams of Asante Kotoko, before he moved to in Ghana's second division, where he already played for the first team at the age of fifteen. In 1995, soon after the FIFA World Youth Championship, Issaka signed a contract at the Belgian club R.S.C. Anderlecht, where he mainly played for their youth team. Issaka caught the eye of the French club AJ Auxerre, in 1996 at a youth tournament. Soon after that he agreed to play for Auxerre, where he played until 1998. In the 1998–99 season Issaka moved to German Bundesliga club TSV 1860 Munich,[4] where he played until the 2003–04 season. Then he played for his former club Prampram Mighty Royals FC for the rest of the 2004–05 season. Issaka later moved to Liberty Professionals, and played the 2005–06 season in the Ghana Telecom Premier League in Ghana. In July 2006 Issaka, joined the newly promoted Ghana Telecom Premier League club Tema Youth.[5]
International career[]
He played for the Ghana under-17 team in the FIFA World Youth Championship in 1995 in Ecuador. Issaka also took part in the FIFA World Youth Championship 1997 in Malaysia, where Ghana finished on fourth position.
Honours[]
- 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship – 4th place
- 1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship World Champion
References[]
- ^ Awudu Issaka at WorldFootball.net
- ^ "Awudu Issaka" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ Awudu Issaka; a tale of tribulation and rebirth citisportsonline.com
- ^ ""Löwen" verlängern mit Issaka" (in German). Spiegel Online. 24 August 1999. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ "AWUDU ISSAKA JOINS TEMA YOUTH - AllAfrica - HighBeam Research". highbeam.com.[dead link]
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Ghanaian footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Belgium
- Ghana international footballers
- AJ Auxerre players
- Expatriate footballers in France
- TSV 1860 Munich II players
- TSV 1860 Munich players
- R.S.C. Anderlecht players
- Bundesliga players
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Liberty Professionals F.C. players
- Tema Youth players
- Ghana under-20 international footballers
- Association football midfielders