Nelson Mensah

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Nelson Mensah
Personal information
Full name Nelson Samuel Mensah
Date of birth (1973-12-07) 7 December 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Ghana
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1991–1993 Dinamo București 21 (5)
1993–1994 Hapoel Tel Aviv 13 (1)
Total34(6)
International career
1993 Ghana U20 2 (0)
1991–1993 Ghana 2 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nelson Samuel Mensah (born 7 December 1973) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a forward. [1]

Contents

Club career

In the middle of the 1991–92 season, Nelson Mensah signed with Dinamo București and became one of the first foreign players that arrived in Romania after the 1989 Revolution and the first African player to play in the Romanian top division Divizia A. [2] [3] He made his debut in the competition when coach Florin Halagian sent him on the field in the 85th minute and he scored a goal a minute later in a 4–0 over Petrolul Ploiești, gaining a total of 12 appearances with two goals scored as the club won the title undefeated. [4] [5] In the following season he played all the four games from the 1992–93 Champions League campaign, helping The Red Dogs eliminate Kuusysi Lahti in the first round, being eliminated by Olympique Marseille in the second one and he scored three goals in three victories in the league against Rapid București, Petrolul and Sportul Studențesc București. [6] [7]

Afterwards, Mensah went to play for Hapoel Tel Aviv, making 13 appearances and scoring once in the 1993–94 Liga Leumit season. [8]

International career

Nelson Mensah played two games for Ghana's under-20 national team at the 1993 World Youth Championship, both of them being draws with Uruguay and Germany in the group stage. [9] [10]

Mensah made his debut for Ghana's senior team in a 1–0 victory against Nigeria at the 1991 CEDEAO Cup in which he scored the only goal of the match. [8] His second game was a friendly game in which he came as a substitute in a 2–0 victory against Indonesia. [8]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Dinamo București Divizia A 1991–92 [5] 122000000122
1992–93 [6] 93004 [lower-alpha 1] 000133
Total215004000255
Hapoel Tel Aviv Liga Leumit 1993–94 [8] 131000000131
Career total346004000386
Notes
  1. ↑ Appearances in the UEFA Champions League

International goals

Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after each Nelson Mensah goal. [11]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.2 November 1991 Abidjan, Ivory Coast Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 1–01–0 1991 CEDEAO Cup

Honours

Dinamo București

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References

  1. ↑ Nelson Mensah at WorldFootball.net
  2. 1 2 "Totul despre colegii mei! Dinamo 1991–1992. Adi Matei: "Demollari ar fi și acum titular la Dinamo". "China" Jercălău, poliglotul Kadar și calitățile lui Nelson Mensah. Cum i-a scăzut glicemia lui Cadete în meciul cu Sporting" [All about my colleagues! Dynamo 1991–1992. Adi Matei: "Demollari would still be in the first eleven at Dinamo". "China" Jercălău, the polyglot Kadar and the qualities of Nelson Mensah. How Cadete's blood sugar dropped in the match with Sporting] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "Liga lui Mitică Africanu', Premieră în campionatul intern: 36 de fotbalişti de pe "Continentul negru"" [Mitică Africanu's League, Premiere in the internal championship: 36 footballers from the "black continent"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1991–92". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1992–93". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Nelson Mensah. Champions League 1992/1993". WorldFootball. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Nelson Mensah at National-Football-Teams.com
  9. ↑ "Nelson Mensah profile". 11v11. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "Nelson Mensah. U20 World Cup 1993 in Australia". WorldFootball. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  11. ↑ "Ghana v Nigeria, 02 November 1991". 11v11. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
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