Abu Francis

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Abu Francis
Personal information
Date of birth (2001-04-27) 27 April 2001 (age 22)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Cercle Brugge
Number 17
Youth career
Right to Dream
2019–2021 Nordsjælland
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–2022 Nordsjælland 55 (8)
2022– Cercle Brugge 39 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Abu Francis (born 27 April 2001) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Belgian club Cercle Brugge.

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Career

Club career

Francis was born in Ghana and was a part of the academy at Right to Dream and joined FC Nordsjælland in the summer 2019. Before his move to Nordsjælland in the summer 2019, Francis had already played a reserve team game for the club in July 2017 and three games for the U19's in the Torneo di Viareggio in March 2019. While playing at Right to Dream, Francis among other things was named as the best player at a J-League Youth tournament in Japan, scoring two goals in the final and helping his team lift the title. [2]

He got his FC Nordsjælland debut on 14 July 2019 in the first league game of the 2019/20 season. Francis was in the starting line up in a 3–0 victory against AC Horsens in the Danish Superliga and played 74 minutes. [3] On 25 July 2019 Nordsjælland announced, that they had extended Francis' contract until June 2023. [4]

With a year left of his contract with Nordsjælland, the club confirmed on 19 August 2022, that Abu Francis had been sold to Belgian First Division A side Cercle Brugge, with the player signing a deal until June 2025 with an option for an additional season. [5] Francis got his debut for the Belgian side on 27 August 2022 against Zulte Waregem. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Abu Francis at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ Right to Dream academy's Francis Abu wins best player award at J-League tournament, ghanaweb.com, 25 December 2018
  3. ↑ "HORSENS VS. NORDSJÆLLAND 0 - 3". soccerway.com. 14 April 2019.
  4. ↑ FCN forlænger med midtbanekomet, bold.dk, 25 July 2019
  5. ↑ ABU FRANCIS JOINS CERCLE BRUGGE, cerclebrugge.be, 19 August 2022
  6. ↑ CERCLE BRUGGE VS. ZULTE WAREGEM 1 - 1, soccerway.com, 27 August 2022


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