Moses Sakyi

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Moses Sakyi
Personal information
Date of birth (1981-03-12) 12 March 1981 (age 42) [1]
Place of birth Accra, Ghana [1]
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) [1]
Position(s) Centre forward
Youth career
Iron Breakers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1999–2000 Liberty Professionals
2000–2001 FC St. Pauli 0 (0)
2002 Yozgatspor 7 (0)
2002–2003 CSKA Sofia 0 (0)
2003 Slavia Sofia 12 (0)
2004 İstanbulspor 8 (0)
2004–2005 Estoril 28 (2)
2005–2006 Olhanense 14 (4)
2006–2007 Estrela Amadora 24 (3)
2008 AEL Limassol 6 (0)
2008–2009 Olhanense 9 (1)
2009 Hangzhou Greentown 7 (0)
2009–2010 Gondomar 15 (4)
2010 Akzhayik 28 (14)
2010–2011 Al Ain 0 (0)
2011 Pinhalnovense 9 (0)
2012 Persib Bandung 9 (3)
2014–2015 Moura 20 (4)
2015–2016 Rio Maior 4 (2)
Total200(37)
International career
2004–2007 Ghana 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Moses Sakyi (born 12 March 1981) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a centre forward.

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Club career

Born in Accra, Sakyi made his senior debut with Liberty Professionals FC, where he shared teams with future Chelsea player Michael Essien. He went on to compete professionally in a host of countries, representing Yozgatspor, İstanbulspor (Turkey), PFC Slavia Sofia (Bulgaria), S.C. Olhanense and C.F. Estrela da Amadora (Portugal). [2]

From January 2008 to 2012, other than in Portugal's Segunda Liga, Sakyi played professionally in the Cypriot First Division, the Chinese Super League, the Kazakhstan Premier League and the Indonesia Super League. On 21 June 2013, he was supposed to sign with C.D. Tondela, [3] but nothing came of it, and he met the same fate with SC Mirandela. [4] After two years out of football he joined another Portuguese club, Moura AC. [5]

International career

Sakyi won the first of his two caps for Ghana on 14 June 2004, in a 0–0 friendly against Togo.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "M. Sakyi" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  2. Kwame Akoto, Patrick (2 October 2007). "Profile of Moses Sakyi". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 18 November 2007.
  3. "Moses assina por uma época" [Moses signs for one season]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 19 June 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  4. "S.C. Mirandela: Moses chega esta semana e Ruca já treina" [S.C. Mirandela: Moses arrives this week and Ruca is already training] (in Portuguese). Rádio Brigantia. 30 July 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  5. "Rio Maior contratou Moses Sakyi… que já jogou na 1ª Divisão Nacional. E na estreia já rendeu um golo" [Rio Maior signed Moses Sakyi… who has already played in the 1st National Division. And he was already good for one goal in his debut] (in Portuguese). Rádio Hertz. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2021.