Lawrence Adjei

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Lawrence Adjei
Personal information
Full name Lawrence Adjei-Okyere
Date of birth (1979-03-23) 23 March 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+12 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1997–2000 Obuasi Goldfields 68 (23)
2000–2001 Asante Kotoko 16 (10)
2001 FC Spartak Moscow 1 (0)
2002 Arminia Bielefeld 5 (1)
2002–2003 SV Eintracht Trier 05 15 (8)
2003–2007 Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club 29 (6)
2007 Hohhot Black Horse [1] 5 (0)
2008 Sporting Clube de Goa 21 (2)
2008–2010 Sporting Club de Bangui 26 (8)
International career
2001–2005 Ghana 7 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lawrence Adjei-Okyere (born 23 March 1979) is a Ghanaian former footballer [2] who played as a midfielder.

Career

Adjei started his footballing career at Obuasi Goldfields. He scored the only goal for Goldfields in the first leg of the 1997 CAF Champions League Final. [3]

He joined Russian team Spartak Moscow in the summer of 2001. [4] In January 2002, he moved to Arminia Bielefeld in Germany [5]

In 2005, he won the 2004 CAF Confederation Cup with Accra Hearts of Oak [6] He played in the 2005 CAF Super Cup but was sent off. [7]

He played in India from January to June 2008 with Sporting Clube de Goa and scored his first goal for them against East Bengal Club on 6 January 2008. [8] He then moved to Central African Republic team Sporting Club de Bangui.

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References

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  2. Lawrence Adjei at kicker (in German)
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