Gifty Ayew Asare

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Gifty Ayew Asare
Personal information
Full name Gifty Ayew Asare
Date of birth (1998-06-09) June 9, 1998 (age 23)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
2012–2013 Bafana Ladies
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2016–2017 Northern Oklahoma-
Tonkawa Mavericks 		41 (50)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–2014 Samaria Ladies F.C. 24 (22)
2014–2015 Blessed Ladies F.C. 20 (18)
2017 Dayton Dutch Lions 15 (5)
National team
2018– Ghana
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Gifty Ayew Asare (born 9 June 1998) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a striker. [1] [2] [3] In 2018, she was called up to play for the Black Queens, the Ghana women's national football team, after netting 27 goals in 19 matches for Northern Oklahoma College's Lady Maverick F.C Soccer Team. [2] [4]

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Early life and education

Gifty was born to in Accra. She attended Assin Manso Senior High School, Asuanse Technical Institute and completed Blessed Tutorial College for her second cycle education. She continued to study Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at the Northern Oklahoma College.

Club career

Gifty started her football career playing for PSK Soccer Queens Academy in Komenda. She joined Bafana Ladies (now Sealions FC) from 2011 to 2013 before moving to Samaria Ladies in Lapaz. She later joined Blessed Ladies FC in the Ghana Women's Premier League in the 2014/2015 season.

In 2016, she gained a scholarship to further her education at the Northern Oklahoma College, where she played for the school's women soccer team, Lady Maverick F.C and won the Most Valuable Player Award in 2017. [3] She was also shortlisted for the All-American Third Team in their 2017 NJCAA Division One Women's League. [5]

In 2017, she become the first professional footballer to take part in the Miss Ghana USA. [6]

International career

In 2014 she was assigned her first national duty to play for the Black Maidens ahead of the U17 World Cup hosted in Costa Rica but did not make the cut. [7] In 2017 she was called up by the then Black Queens coach Dramani Mas-Ud Didi in his 28-member provisional squad for camping ahead of an international friendly against France on October 23 in Paris. [8] [9]

Honours

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References

  1. ↑ "US-based Gifty Ayew Asare invited for Black Queens friendly against France next month". GhanaSoccernet. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  2. 1 2 "Ghanaian female attacker Gifty Asare honoured in USA". Ghana Sports Online. 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  3. 1 2 "Ghanaian Female striker Gifty Asare honored in USA". The Ghana Guardian News. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  4. ↑ "NJCAA Region II". NJCAA Region II. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  5. 1 2 "2017 NJCAA Division I Women's Soccer All-America Teams". NJCAA. 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  6. ↑ "Miss Ghana USA organization marks 60 years of Ghana's independence". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  7. ↑ "Ex-Black Maidens player rocks US with 23 goals and 11 assists in maiden season". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  8. ↑ Bebli, Anthony. "Ghana Vs France Friendly: 28-Black Queens invited | Starr Fm" . Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  9. ↑ "Ghana Blacks Queens don ready for France friendly". BBC News Pidgin. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  10. ↑ "NOC Tonkawa Players Of The Week". Ponca Post. 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
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