Adam Larsen Kwarasey

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Adam Larsen Kwarasey
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Larsen Kwarasey playing for the Portland Timbers
Personal information
Full name Adambathia Larsen Kwarasey [1]
Date of birth (1987-12-12) 12 December 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth Oslo, Norway
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) [2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Trosterud
2006–2007 Vålerenga
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007–2014 Strømsgodset 154 (0)
2009 Strømsgodset 2 1 (0)
2015–2016 Portland Timbers 40 (0)
2016–2017 Rosenborg 9 (0)
2017 Brøndby 2 (0)
2017–2020 Vålerenga 61 (0)
Total267(0)
International career‡
2008 Norway U21 1 (0)
2011–2016 Ghana [3] 24 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 August 2020
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:11, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Adambathia Larsen "Adam" Kwarasey (born 12 December 1987) is a retired professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Born in Norway, Kwarasey represents Ghana at international level.

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Early and personal life

Kwarasey was born in Oslo, Norway to a father from Ghana and a mother from Norway. [4] He holds both Ghanaian and Norwegian passports. [5]

Club career

Strømsgodset

Kwarasey played youth football with Trosterud and Vålerenga. [6] After moving to Strømsgodset, he made his debut on 6 May 2007. [6] He scored his first senior goal in 2010, converting a penalty kick in the cup against Modum. [7] Kwarasey was the captain of the club in 2013 when Strømsgodset won Tippeligaen for the first time since 1970. [8] He also won the Kniksen Award as the best goalkeeper in the 2013 season. [9]

Kwarasey announced on 31 October 2014 that he would leave Strømsgodset after the 2014 season, when his contract expired. [10]

Portland Timbers

Kwarasey signed for the Major League Soccer club Portland Timbers in December 2014. [11] [12] In the one-game knockout round of the MLS Cup 2015 playoffs against Sporting Kansas City, the game went to a penalty-kick shootout. The shootout was tied after all 10 field players had taken their shots, so the goalkeepers went next; Kwarasey scored his shot, then saved his opposite number Jon Kempin's shot, winning his team the shootout and enabling it to advance to the next round. [13] The Timbers won the next two rounds and then the 2015 MLS Cup, the league championship.

During the match against San Jose Earthquakes on 16 April 2016, Kwarasey suffered a finger injury, which turned out to be a torn ligament that would rule him out for a month. [14]

Rosenborg

Kwarasey returned to Norwegian football in July 2016 after signing a three-and-a-half year contract with Rosenborg. [15] The Timbers stated that this move "helps free up cap space" and "made sense for Kwarasey and his family." [16] The lanky Ghanaian international won the Tippeligaen and the Norwegian Football Cup [17] in his only season with the Norwegian football giants. This was his fourth time of winning a medal in the Norway, after captaining Strømsgodset to their first league title since 1970. He left Rosenborg in 2017 for Brøndby in Denmark.

Brøndby

On 9 January 2017, it was confirmed by Brøndby that Kwarasey had signed a four-year contract with the club. [18]

Vålerenga

On 6 June 2017, Kwarasey Larsen agreed a three-year contract with former youth club Vålerenga. [19] Due to the Norwegian transfer window which opens on 21 July, he will not be available to play competitively for Vålerenga until that date, although he will be able to train with the team. [20] He left the club in August 2020. [21]

International career

In November 2007, Kwarasey declared that he would play international football for Ghana. [22] However, he played a friendly match for Norway under-21 in 2008. [23] In October 2010, Kwarasey received his Ghanaian passport and became eligible to play for Ghana. [24] On 30 July 2011, Kwarasey was called up to the Ghana national team for a match against Nigeria. [25] That match was postponed due to security reasons, [26] although Kwarasey confirmed his intention to become Ghana's first-choice goalkeeper. [27] He made his international debut for Ghana on 2 September 2011 in an 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Swaziland, [28] before playing in a friendly match against Brazil at Craven Cottage in London three days later. [29] Kwarasey was named to Ghana's 23-man squad for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. [30] He was the team's first choice goalkeeper throughout the tournament, as the Black Stars finished in fourth place. [31]

Kwarasey made two appearances for the Black Stars during their successful 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, serving as understudy to Fatau Dauda. [32] On 2 June 2014, Kwarasey was named in Ghana's squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. [33] He started in goal for the Black Stars in the team's opening match, a 2–1 defeat against the United States in Natal. [34] After his team defeat, he planned to quit playing with Black Stars. [35] In August 2014, he was dropped from the national team. [36]

Career statistics

As of 8 November 2019 [37] [17]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCup [lower-alpha 1] ContinentalOther [lower-alpha 2] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Strømsgodset 2007 Tippeligaen 4010––50
2008 4030––70
2009 4020––60
2010 29071––360
2011 280402 [lower-alpha 3] 0–340
2012 29030––320
2013 300103 [lower-alpha 3] 0–340
2014 260102 [lower-alpha 4] 0–290
Total154022170001831
Portland Timbers 2015 MLS 33020–50400
2016 700000–70
Total400200050470
Rosenborg 2016 Tippeligaen90104 [lower-alpha 5] 0–140
Brøndby 2016–17 Danish Superliga 202000–40
Vålerenga 2017 Eliteserien 14030––170
2018 30010––310
2019 17010––180
2020 0000––00
Total610500000660
Career total2660321110503141
  1. ↑ Includes the Norwegian Football Cup, U.S. Open Cup, and Danish Cup
  2. ↑ All appearances in the MLS Cup Playoffs
  3. 1 2 Appearances in the Europa League
  4. ↑ Appearances in the Champions League
  5. ↑ Two appearances in the Champions League, two appearances in the Europa League

International

As of 15 July 2019 [3]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Ghana 2011 50
2012 120
2013 20
201430
201500
201620
Total240

Honours

Strømsgodset

Portland Timbers

Rosenborg

Individual

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