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Cecil Jones Attuquayefio
Ghanaian football player and manager (1944–2015)
Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was a Ghanaian football player and coach.[3]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Cecil Jones Attuquayefio | ||
| Date of birth | (1944-10-18)18 October 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Accra, Ghana | ||
| Date of death | 12 May 2015(2015-05-12) (aged 70) | ||
| Place of death | Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1962–1965 | Ghana Academicals | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1962–1963 | Accra Standfast F.C. | ||
| 1963–1965 | Real Republicans | ||
| 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)[1] | ||
| 2007–2009 | Ghana (Ministry of Sport)[2] | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Attuquayefio played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the 1965 African Nations Cup.[4]
Attuquayefio managed the Benin national team to the 2004 African Nations Cup,[5] Hearts of Oak to the 2000 African Champions League title[6] and the 2004 CAF Confederation Cup.[7] He also managed Ghana's national team.[8] In 2008–09 Attuquayefio coached Liberty Professionals F.C.[9] and became the title coach of the Century.[10]
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 12 May 2015 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana's capital, from throat cancer.[11][12]
- "Jones Attuquayefio to scout for Stars". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
- Attuquayefio slams Sports Ministry Archived 8 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- "Jones Attuquayefio applies for Stars job". Archived from the original on 2 April 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
- "2004 CAF Clubs Competition Match Reports in Phobia History Forum". Yuku. 23 November 2004. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- "Interview with Cecil Jones Attuquayefio". Archived from the original on 11 December 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2009.