Solomon Asante

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Solomon Asante
Personal information
Full name Solomon Asante Wiafe
Date of birth (1990-03-06) 6 March 1990 (age 34)[1]
Place of birth Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana
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Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 TP Mazembe
Number 20
Youth career
0000–2007 Feyenoord Ghana
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2009 Feyenoord Ghana 66 (12)
2009–2011 ASFA Yennenga 57 (39)
2011–2013 Berekum Chelsea 70 (21)
2013– TP Mazembe 17 (4)
International career
2011 Burkina Faso 10 (2)
2012– Ghana 17 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Solomon Asante (born 6 March 1990 in Kumasi) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for TP Mazembe as a winger.

Early life

Born in Ghana to Ghanaian parents,[3] Solomon Asante started his career at the Ghanaian club Feyenoord Ghana, where he played until 2009.[4]

Club career

ASFA Yennenga

Solomon Asante joined Burkinabé club ASFA Yennenga from Feyenoord Ghana, at the beginning of the 2009–2010 season.[5] In his second season with ASFA Yennenga he won the 2010–2011 Burkinabé Premier League, 2010–2011 top-goalscorer and was also the 2009–2010 Burkinabé Premier League top-goalscorer with 14 goals.[4][6] He spent two season's with ASFA Yennenga.[4]

Berekum Chelsea

Solomon Asante signed for Ghanaian Ghana Premier League club Berekum Chelsea at the beginning of the 2011–12 Ghana Premier League season.[4][5]

International career

He made his debut for Burkina Faso against South Africa at Ellis Park on 8 August 2011 in an international friendly.[7] He scored his first goal for Burkina Faso in the 87th minute scoring one goal. In November 2011 he dropped from the national team to join his home country Ghana. He scored a goal against England on 22 September 2011 at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow the game final score 6-1 Solomon helped the team advance to face Germany but he suffered an injury.

Ghana national team

On 16 May 2012, he was called up to the Ghana squad for two 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Lesotho national football team and Zambia national football team but was later dropped,[8] due to concerns over his eligibility to play for Ghana.[3] He has since been cleared to play for Ghana.[9]

Honours

Club

ASFA Yennenga

References

  1. ↑ Player's profile, CAF
  2. ↑ Solomon Asante – TP Mazembe
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "GFA_seeks_FIFA_clarification" defined multiple times with different content
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  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Solomon Asante Wiafe. footballzz.co.uk.
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External links

  • Solomon Asante at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

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