Full name Bernard Dong-Bortey 2000 Ghapoha Readers Position Forward Years Team Current team The Panthers F.C. | Playing position Role Footballer Place of birth Tema, Ghana Name Bernard Bortey | |
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Date of birth (1982-09-22) 22 September 1982 (age 33) Nominations CAF International Goal of the Year | ||
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Bernard Dong-Bortey (born 22 September 1982) is a Ghanaian footballer.
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Career
Bortey began his career 2000 with Ghapoha Readers in Tema. One year later, he moved to Accra Hearts of Oak SC and became an integral part of the "64 Battalion" and a deadly force alongside Charles Asampong Taylor, Ishmael Addo, Emmanuel Osei Kuffour. Hearts loaned him out in 2002 to Al Wasl FC in Dubai, where he played for 6 months. He returned in June 2002 to Hearts were he won the league and shared the Top Scorer award with Charles Asampong Taylor. Nicknamed "Dong Dada Diouf" a reference to Senegalese forward El Hadji Diouf due to similar style of play and his dyed hair.
International career
Bortey played twenty-seven games for the Ghanaian national football team and scored nine times; the latest game being in the qualifying stage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup He also represented his homeland in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship in New Zealand, where he played 6 games and scored 3 goals.
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