Razak Abalora

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Razak Abalora
Personal information
Full name Razak Abalora
Date of birth (1996-09-04) 4 September 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 AF Elbasani
Number 40
Youth career
2010–2013 West African Football Academy
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–2017 WAFA 24 (0)
2017–2020 Azam 100 (0)
2020–2022 Asante Kotoko 33 (0)
2022– Sheriff Tiraspol 15 (0)
2024– → AF Elbasani 3 (0)
Total(0)
International career‡
2019– Ghana 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 April 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 December 2019

Razak Abalora (born 4 September 1996) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for the Albanian football club found in Elbasan AF Elbasani as a goalkeeper. [1]

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Club career

Abalora joined the Feyenoord Academy and went on to spend three years before joining the senior team now called West African Football Academy (WAFA). Abalora spent the next five years at the Ghanaian Premier League team before he moved to Azam. He joined Azam on a three-year deal in July 2017. [2] [3]

In October 2020, he joined Asante Kotoko on as a free agent on 3-year contract. [4] He made his debut on 20 December 2020, in a 1–0 victory over Dreams. [5] He was appointed the deputy captain of the club to Ismail Abdul-Ganiyu. [6] He left the club in 2022 and joined Sheriff Tiraspol. He played 33 league matches and kept 17 clean sheets. [7]

In January 2022, Abalora joined Moldovan football club Sheriff Tiraspol on a three-year contract. [7] [8] This made him the fourth Ghanaian player to join the club in the space of two years. [9]

In August 2024, Abalora joined Albanian football club AF Elbasani on a three-year contract. He replaced the existing goalkeeper Klevi Totoshi, after bad performances by this goalkeeper.

International career

Razak earned his first cap for Ghana on 19 October 2019. [10] The call up was for the 2021 African Cup of Nations qualifying matches against South Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe. [11] [12]

Honours

Azam

Asante Kotoko

Sheriff Tiraspol

Petrocub Hîncești

Individual

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