Abukari Damba (born 30 December 1968) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Damba played for Real Tamale United in Ghana, [1] and also in Perak FA in Malaysia. [2] He was also capped for Ghana. [1] Damba was selected as a reserve goalkeeper for the 1992 African Cup of Nations finals. [3]
After he retired from playing, Damba became a football coach. He was the Ghana national team's goalkeeping coach before being asked to step down following corruption accusations in July 2007. [4] Damba is the goalkeeping coach for Accra Hearts of Oak SC. [5]
Marcel Desailly is a French former professional footballer, capable of playing as both centre-back or defensive midfielder. During a successful career at club level, lasting from 1986 to 2006, Desailly won several titles, including UEFA Champions League medals with both Marseille and AC Milan, and also played for Nantes and Chelsea, among other teams. At international level, he collected 116 caps between 1993 and 2004, scoring three goals, and was a member of the France international squads that won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.
Abedi Ayew, known professionally as Abedi Pele, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and who served as captain of the Ghana national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest African footballers of all time. He played for several European clubs and found his fame in the French Ligue 1 with Lille and Marseille, the latter where he won the UEFA Champions League in 1993, among other titles. He was also the first to win CAF award in 1992.
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Claude Le Roy is a French football manager and former player, who gained prominence at international level as coach to the Cameroon, Senegal and Ghana national teams. He was most recently the manager of the Malaysia under-23 team.
John Burridge, nicknamed Budgie, is an English former goalkeeper who is now working with Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters as their goalkeeping consultant and senior goalkeeping coach for their goalkeeping academy. In his senior career he played for 29 clubs, 18 of them in the Football League, in a career that lasted nearly 30 years. Overall, Burridge played 768 league games in the English and Scottish leagues, and several more at non-league level.
Gintaras Staučė is a Lithuanian football coach and a former player. He is the goalkeeping coach for the Hungarian club Ferencváros.
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David Efford Chabala, popularly known as Efford Chabala was Zambia's first choice goalkeeper from 1983 until his death in a plane crash off the Gabonese coast in 1993 and is one of Zambia's most capped players, with 108 full international appearances. Chabala was instrumental in Zambia's first ever East and Central African Championship success when he saved three penalties in Zambia's 3–0 shoot-out victory over Malawi in the 1984 final in Uganda after a goalless draw at full-time. He was named Zambia's Sportsman of the Year in 1985.
Richard Kingson is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He currently serves as a goalkeeper coach for the Ghana national football team. He is also known by his Turkish name Faruk Gürsoy and sometimes by the surname Kingston, which is the surname he used in his UEFA registration and also the surname of his brother Laryea Kingston. The different spelling of the surnames is due to "irregularity on his identity documents". Even in his native Ghana, he was quoted as "the man who got the 't' off his surname".
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Azmin Azram Abdul Aziz is a former Malaysian footballer. He represented four state teams and one club team in his career. He also represented Malaysia from 1998 to 2004. Currently he is the goalkeeping coach of Hanoi Police FC.
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