Baba Iddi

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Baba Iddi
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-07-06) July 6, 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Kumasi, Ghana
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Attacker
Youth career
–2000 Great Africans
2000–2002 Alemannia Aachen
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2002–2003 Alemannia Aachen [1] 4 (0)
2003–2004 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2004–2005 Asante Kotoko
2005–2006 Hearts of Oak
2006–2007 King Faisal Babes
2007–2008 Perak FA
2008–2009 Vardar Skopje
2009–2010 Lokeren 3 (0)
International career
Ghana U-17 [2]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 August 2010

Baba Iddi (born 6 July 1982) is a Ghanaian football striker.

Career

Iddi began his career with Great Africans in Kumasi before being scouted for Alemannia Aachen in 2000. He was the top scorer in the reserve team and he moved to the first team in 2002 playing in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. After one season, he moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. in 2004. After a year, he was sold to Asante Kotoko and played a year in Kumasi before being sold for €100.000 to Hearts of Oak in January 2005. He played another year with Hearts of Oak and moved in July 2006 to King Faisal Babes, where he was a finalist for the 2007 Ghana Premier League All-Star Team. [3] He tried out for Perak FA in Malaysia [4] and Dalian Shide in China, but did not get a contract. In August 2008, he left Perak and moved to FK Vardar in Macedonia. [5] In summer 2009 he moved to Belgium and signed with KSC Lokeren. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Fussballdaten Statistics
  2. ↑ Baba Iddi at Ghana Web.
  3. ↑ "Premiership All Stars Game to Showcase Favorite Ghanaian Football Stars". Archived from the original on 2007-06-29. Retrieved 2007-06-29.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-03. Retrieved 2010-08-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "Macedonian Football - Vardar". Archived from the original on 2009-01-01. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
  6. ↑ "Footgoal Profile". Archived from the original on 2009-10-11. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
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