Roy Essandoh

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Roy Essandoh
Personal information
Full name Roy Kabina Essandoh [1]
Date of birth (1976-02-17) 17 February 1976 (age 47)
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1993–1994 Cumbernauld United
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1994–1997 Motherwell 5 (0)
1998 East Fife 5 (0)
1998 St. Pölten 3 (0)
1998–1999 JJK Jyväskylä 16 (5)
1999–2000 Vaasan Palloseura 50 (7)
2001 Rushden & Diamonds 2 (0)
2001 Wycombe Wanderers 13 (0)
2001 Barnet 6 (1)
2001–2002 Cambridge City 15 (3)
2002 Bishop's Stortford 5 (3)
2002 Billericay Town 15 (8)
2002–2003 Grays Athletic 19 (4)
2003–2004 Bishop's Stortford 17 (5)
2004 → Gravesend & Northfleet (loan) 5 (3)
2004–2005 Gravesend & Northfleet 45 (16)
2005 Kettering Town 3 (0)
2005–2008 Bishop's Stortford 149 (62)
2008–2010 Glenavon ? (?)
2010–2011 St Neots Town 16 (5)
2011 Braintree Town ? (?)
2011–2012 Bury Town ? (?)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roy Kabina Essandoh (born 17 February 1976) is a Northern Ireland former professional footballer.

Contents

He is best remembered for his last gasp FA Cup quarter final winner while with Wycombe Wanderers. [2]

Early life

Born in Belfast, Essandoh moved with his family to Ghana (his father Richard's birthplace) when he was seven months old. When he was eight, the family moved back to Northern Ireland, where he attended school.

Career

Essandoh began his career at Motherwell when he was 18 years of age. Following a short spell at East Fife, he moved to Finland to play for VPS Vaasa until the turn of the new millennium when he returned to the United Kingdom.

Upon his return, and after just a couple of games for Conference National side Rushden & Diamonds, followed the highlight of his career when somewhat extraordinarily Essandoh's agent responded to an appeal by Wycombe Wanderers manager Lawrie Sanchez looking for a fit, non-cup-tied striker the week before their FA Cup quarter-final match with Leicester City, which had been posted on the club's website and spotted by a journalist who published the story on the BBC's television text service Ceefax. Offered a two-week contract, Essandoh came on as a late substitute at Leicester's Filbert Street ground and scored a last-minute winning header to secure third-tier Wycombe a first-ever FA Cup semi-final place, against Liverpool. [3] [4]

Essandoh's goal in the FA Cup quarter-final against Leicester City was voted the 76th best FA Cup moment ever in Andy Gray's FA Cup Madness. It was however the only goal he scored for Wycombe, and he was released at the end of his first season in English football.

Essandoh continued his football career in England, mostly for non-league clubs in the East and South East. At Barnet, he scored against Yeovil in the league [5] and Bournemouth in the Football League Trophy [6] . Essandoh returned to Bishop's Stortford for an extended spell starting in 2005, after which he returned to his birth country to play for Glenavon. In August 2010, Essandoh signed for St Neots Town, [7] before signing for Braintree Town on 31 March 2011.

On 6 July 2014 he played for Hemingford Veterans FC v Cambridge in a 5–2 win.

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References

  1. ↑ "Roy Essandoh". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Cyberman Essandoh hits the net". BBC News. 11 March 2001. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  3. ↑ "Cyberman Essandoh hits the net". BBC News. 11 March 2001.
  4. ↑ "10 things you didn't know about Ceefax". BBC News. 23 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "Barnet 2–3 Yeovil". BBC. 2 October 2001. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  6. ↑ "Barnet 2–1 Bournemouth". BBC. 16 October 2001. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  7. ↑ "Roy Essandoh Profile | Aylesbury United FC". aylesburyunitedfc.co.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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