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Ohene Kennedy
Ghanaian footballer
Ohene Kennedy (born 28 April 1973) is a retired Ghanaian football striker.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ohene Kennedy | ||
| Date of birth | (1973-04-28) 28 April 1973 (age 51) | ||
| Place of birth | Accra, Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1993 | Mysterious Dwarfs | ||
| 1993–1997 | Al-Nassr | ||
| 1997–2002 | MKE Ankaragücü | 106 | (38) |
| 2002–2003 | Adanaspor | 0 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Dhanmondi Club | ||
| International career | |||
| 1994–2000 | Ghana | 7 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Kennedy's golden days were with Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, where he played and scored many goals. He began his professional career at the Mysterious Dwarfs club of Ghana in the 1992–93 season, aged 19.
He joined Al-Nassr in 1993, and soon became one of the team's most valuable players and top scorers. In total, he scored 74 goals for Al-Nassr and won the Saudi league twice; 1994 and 1995, he also was the league's top scorer in 1996 with 14 goals. He had 4 hat-tricks during this period. On 10 November 1996, he scored a hat-trick for Al-Nassr to win 3–2 against Persepolis in the 1996–97 Asian Club Championship quarterfinals.
He later played in Turkey for MKE Ankaragücü and Adanaspor, then in Bangladesh for Dhanmondi Club.
He was part of the Ghanaian 2000 African Nations Cup team, who exited in the quarter-finals after losing to South Africa. He was also a member of the Ghanaian squad at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Kennedy went to live in Croydon, England after retirement from football, where he worked for a transportation company called Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD).
International
| Ghana national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 7 | 0 |
Statistics accurate as of match played 6 February 2000[1]
Club
Al-Nassr[1]
- "Ohene Kennedy". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- Ohene Kennedy at National-Football-Teams.com
- Ohene Kennedy at the Turkish Football Federation
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