Cecil Jones Attuquayefio

Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio

Personal information
Full name	Cecil Jones Attuquayefio
Date of birth	(1944-10-18)18 October 1944
Place of birth	Accra, Ghana,
Date of death
Place of death	Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
Height
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1962-1965	Ghana Academicals
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1962-1963	Accra Standfast F.C.
1963-1965	Ghana Republicans F.C.
1966-1974	Great Olympics
International career
1965-1974	Ghana
Managerial career
1974-1984	Great Olympics
1982-1984	GFA (Vice-President)
1985-1987	Ghana (Assistant Coach)
1988-1989	Okwawu United
1989-1990	Stade Abidjan
1990-1993	Goldfields Obuasi
1993-1995	Goldfields Academy
1995-1997	GFA (General Secretary)
1996	Ghana U-23 (Assistant Coach)
1998-1999	Ghana U-17
1998-2001	Hearts of Oak
2000-2001	Ghana
2002	Liberty Professionals F.C.
2003-2004	Benin
2004-	Liberty Professionals F.C. (Technical Director)
2006-2015	Ghana (scout)
2007-2009	Ghana (Ministry of Sport)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was a Ghanaian footballer and coach.

International

He played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the 1965 African Nations Cup.

Coaching career

He managed the Benin national team to the 2004 African Nations Cup and Hearts of Oak to the 2000 African Champions League title. He also managed Ghana's national team. In 2008/2009 Attuquayefio coached Liberty Professionals F.C. and became the title coach of the Century.

Cecil Jones Attuquayefio was named African coach of the year in 2000 after his club Accra Hearts of Oak of Ghana won the African Champions league with only one loss throughout the entire tournament (to DC Motema Pembe).

In 2015, Jones Attuquayefio died in the early hours of May 12 2015 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana's capital, from throat cancer.

External links

• Cecil Jones Attuquayefio – FIFA competition record