Place of birth Accra, Ghana, Height 1.67 m Playing position Career start 1962 | Name Cecil Attuquayefio Career end 1974 Role Footballer Position Forward | |
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Full name Cecil Jones Attuquayefio Date of birth (1944-10-18)18 October 1944 Date of death 12 May 2015(2015-05-12) (aged 70) Place of death Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana Died May 12, 2015, Accra, Ghana Similar People Stephen Appiah, Jonathan Mensah, Asamoah Gyan, James Kwesi Appiah, John Mensah | ||
Sports tonight pays tribute to sir cecil jones attuquayefio
Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was a Ghanaian footballer and coach.
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- Sports tonight pays tribute to sir cecil jones attuquayefio
- Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio Newsfile on Joy News 16 5 15
- International
- Coaching career
- References
Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio - Newsfile on Joy News (16-5-15)
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, Hearts of Oak to the 2000 African Champions League title and the 2004 CAF Confederation Cup. 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.