Tony Yeboah

Tony Yeboah
Personal information
Full name Anthony Yeboah
Date of birth (1966-06-06) 6 June 1966 (age 60)
Place of birth Kumasi, Ghana
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981–1983 Asante Kotoko 50 (30)
1983–1985 Cornerstones Kumasi 65 (68)
1986–1987 Okwawu United 35 (35)
1988–1990 1. FC Saarbrücken 65 (26)
1990–1995 Eintracht Frankfurt 123 (68)
1995–1997 Leeds United 47 (24)
1997–2001 Hamburger SV 100 (28)
2001–2002 Al-Ittihad 22 (5)
Total 507 (284)
International career
1985–1997 Ghana 59 (29)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anthony Yeboah (born 6 June 1966) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Considered one of the best Ghanaian players of all time. He was a striker gifted with speed, power and a good eye for goal. Yeboah was an all-action centre-forward, with the physicality to ruffle defenders at will and the technique to score wonder goals almost every other week. At 5ft 11ins tall, Yeboah had everything a top striker required - pace, power, tenacity and clinical finishing.

Club career

In adult football, he made his debut in 1982 with performances for "Asante Kotoko", after which he played in his homeland for the "Cornerstones" and "Okwavu United" clubs, becoming the two-time top scorer of the Ghana championship with the last club.

In 1988, Tony went to Germany, where he signed a contract with Saarbrücken, which played in the Second Bundesliga, where he spent the next two seasons.

With his game for Saarbruecken, he attracted the attention of representatives of the coaching staff of the Eintracht club from the First Bundesliga, which he joined in the summer of 1990. He played the next five seasons of his playing career for the Frankfurt club. Most of his time with Eintracht (Frankfurt am Main), he was the main player in the attacking link of the team and one of the main scorers of the team, averaging 0.55 goals per game in the championship, as well as becoming the best two years in a row scorer of the Bundesliga.

During 1995-1997, he defended the colors of the English club "Leeds United" and in 1996 was named the best player of the club.

In the summer of 1997, Yeboah returned to Germany and signed a contract with Hamburg , where he spent the next four years of his playing career. While playing for Hamburg, he also mostly appeared on the field as part of the main team, but he no longer showed his former performance.

He finished his professional playing career in the club "Al-Ittihad" (Doha), for which team he played during 2001-2002 and helped his club win the Qatar championship and the Cup of the Emir of Qatar that season.


International career

He was a member of Ghana's national team for over ten years, and represented his country at three Africa Cup of Nations during the 1990s. Yeboah scored 29 goals in 59 appearances for Ghana, the fourth highest goalscoring total in the nation's history behind Asamoah Gyan, Edward Acquah and Kwasi Owusu.

Post-playing career

On 3 November 2008, he was appointed as the new chairman of the newly promoted Ghana Premier League club Berekum Chelsea.

Personal life

Yeboah along with his cousin former Mainz player Michael Osei runs an international sports agency called Anthony Yeboah Sportpromotion and owns a chain of hotels in Ghana (Accra, Kumasi) called Yegoala. He is married and has two children.

His nephew, Kelvin Yeboah, is also a professional footballer.


Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
1. FC Saarbrücken 1988–89 2. Bundesliga 28920––223211
1989–90 371712––214020
Total 6526320000437231
Eintracht Frankfurt 1990–91 Bundesliga 26862–11–3311
1991–92 341510–32–3817
1992–93 272065–45–3730
1993–94 221821–31–2720
1994–95 14721–53–2111
Total 123681790016120015689
Leeds United 1994–95 Premier League 18122100––2013
1995–96 2212617343–3919
1996–97 700000––70
Total 4724827343006632
Hamburger SV 1997–98 Bundesliga 23300–00–233
1998–99 341432–––3716
1999–2000 24910–63–3112
2000–01 142101092–254
2001–02 5000–––50
Total 1002852101550012135
Career total 335146331583352043415187

International goals

African Cup of Nations only.

Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Yeboah goal.
List of international goals scored by Tony Yeboah
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
117 January 1992Stade Aline Sitoe Diatta, Ziguinchor, Senegal Egypt1–01–01992 African Cup of Nations
220 January 1992Stade Leopold Senghor, Dakar, Senegal Congo1–02–11992 African Cup of Nations
3 30 August 1992Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana Burkina Faso1–03–01994 African Cup of Nations Qualifier
4 2–0
525 July 1993Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex, Monrovia, Liberia Liberia2–02–01994 African Cup of Nations Qualifier
623 April 1995Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana Niger1–01–01996 African Cup of Nations Qualifier
714 January 1996EPRU Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Ivory Coast1–02–01996 African Cup of Nations
828 January 1996EPRU Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Zaire1–01–01996 African Cup of Nations

Honours

Asante Kotoko

Leeds United

Al Ittihad

Ghana

Individual

References

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