Faustina Ampah

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Faustina Ampah
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Personal information
Full name Faustina Ampah
Date of birth (1996-11-30) November 30, 1996 (age 27)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
FC Minsk
Number 15
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009–2017 Blessed Ladies FC 60 (16)
2016Lokomotiva Brno H. H. (Loan) 8 (3)
2017–2018 FC Minsk 28 (12)
International career
2012–2016 Ghana U20
2017 Ghana 6 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Faustina Ampah (born November 30, 1996) is a Ghanaian defender currently playing for Belarus side, FC Minsk. Ampah is one of the two Ghanaians to have played in the round of 32 of UEFA Women's Champions League as at October 2017.

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Club career

Ampah began her professional football career in Ghana, with Blessed Ladies and ended the 7 -year stay with the Kasoa based side by joining Czech Republic's Lokomotiva Brno Horní Heršpice on loan. Faustina Ampah was part of the FC Minsk team in the 2017-18 UEFA Women's Champions League, exiting the competition at the round of 32, losing to Slavia Prague and becoming the first Ghanaian to play in the round of 32 of the UEFA Women's Champions League.

International career

Faustina Ampah had her FIFA World Cup debut at the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup hosted by Japan in 2012. Her debut game was against United States that ended 4:0 in favor of United States. [1] Faustina Ampah was also part of the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup making her the only Ghanaian to represent the nation at three FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Faustina Ampah wins 2018 WAFU Women's Cup with Ghana's National Women's Football Team Faustina Ampah 2018 WAFU .jpg
Faustina Ampah wins 2018 WAFU Women's Cup with Ghana's National Women's Football Team

Ampah's first competitive tournament for the Ghana women's national football team was the 2018 WAFU Women's Cup. She played in all five games of the tournament helping the Black Queens to the first place title. She scored a semifinal equalizer against Nigeria women's national football team [2] She won the player of the match in that game.

Honours

Club

FC Minsk

National Team

Ghana Women's National Football Team

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References

  1. Fifa. "Faustina AMPAH". Fifa. Fifa. Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
  2. Ghana emerge as winners of Wafuocsportsnews.com February 25, 2018 Archived March 14, 2018, at the Wayback Machine