Bernard Dong Bortey

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Bernard Bortey
Personal information
Full name Bernard Dong-Bortey
Date of birth (1982-09-22) 22 September 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Nungua, Ghana
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[ citation needed ]
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2000 Ghapoha Readers
2001–2010 Hearts of Oak [1]
2002–2003Al Wasl (loan)
2008–2009Bnei Sakhnin (loan)
2010–2013 Aduana Stars
2011–2012Sông Lam Nghệ An (loan)
2013 New Edubiase United
2014 The Panthers
2015 Ånge IF
2019 Great Olympics
International career
1999 Ghana U-17 6 (3)
2002–2004 Ghana 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bernard Dong Bortey (born 22 September 1982) is a Ghanaian retired footballer who played as an attacking winger. [2]

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Career

Bortey began his career in 2000 with Ghapoha Readers in Tema. One year later, he moved to Accra Hearts of Oak SC and became an integral part of the "64 Battalion" and a deadly force alongside Charles Asampong Taylor, Ishmael Addo, Emmanuel Osei Kuffour. Hearts loaned him out in 2002 to Al Wasl FC in Dubai, where he played for 6 months. He returned in June 2002 to Hearts where he won the league and shared the Top Scorer award with Charles Asampong Taylor. [3]

Since 2015 in Sweden with Ånge IF, Bortey was without club until signing with Ghanaian club Accra Great Olympics in December 2019. [4] However, in the beginning of January 2020, Olympics manager Prince George Koffie said, that he hadn't seen Bortey yet and therefore wasn't a part of his team. [5] A few days later Bortey said that he didn't receive the financial benefits he was promised when he signed the contract and that he wouldn't play until they had paid him. [6] On 6 April 2020, Bortey officially announced his retirement and expressed, that he would like to be a coach. [7] [8]

International career

Bortey played seven games for the Ghanaian national football team without scoring; the latest game being in the qualifying stage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. [9] He also represented his homeland in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship in New Zealand, where he played 6 games and scored 3 goals, helping Ghana to third place. [10]

Style of play

Nicknamed "Dong Dada Diouf" a reference to Senegalese forward El Hadji Diouf due to similar style of play and his dyed hair.[ citation needed ]

Honours

Club

Hearts of Oak

Song Lam Nghe An

International

Ghana U-17

Individual

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References

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  2. "Revealed: Dong Bortey's open letter to Kotoko | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  3. Profile @ Weltfussball
  4. Bernard Dong Bortey signs two-year deal with Great Olympics, futaa.com, 5 December 2019
  5. Don Bortey is not part of my team - Great Olympics coach insists, footballghana.com, 8 January 2020
  6. I won’t play for Olympics till they pay me - Dong Bortey, ghanaweb.com, 13 January 2020
  7. Bernard Dong Bortey Confirms Retirement From Football, modernghana.com, 6 April 2020
  8. "Don Bortey officially retires; announces plans to become a coach". Pulse Gh. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
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