Full name Kweku Essien Years Team Number 21 Height 1.85 m | Playing position Role Football player Name Kweku Essien Position Midfielder | |
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Date of birth (1984-12-12) 12 December 1984 (age 31) | ||
Current team Sekondi Wise Fighters | ||
Kweku essien is fully recovered former best player in Ghana is back
Kweku Essien (born 12 December 1984 in Kumasi) is a Ghanaian football player who is currently playing for Eleven Wise of the Globacom Premier League. Essien is variable in the midfield, he can play as attacking or defensive midfielder.
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- Kweku essien is fully recovered former best player in Ghana is back
- Kweku essien is in training
- Career
- International
- Honours
- References
Kweku essien is in training
Career
Essien began his professional career 2003 at Asante Kotoko but left the club in 2005 and moved to F.C. Maamobi. The central midfielder had a very good season at F.C. Maamobi in the 2005–06 Ghana Premier League season but was loaned out to Accra Hearts of Oak SC for $60,000 until June 2007. He was outstanding for King Faisal in their Premier League campaign, picking up 10 Most Valuable Player awards in the season. In 2007, he failed another trial, this time with Austrian side Sturm Graz. So far the MVP of Ghana football league for 2006–07 has failed to impress at Hertha BSC, Eintracht Frankfurt, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, SCR Altach and now Sturm Graz. In July the same year, he was loaned out to German second division team VfL Osnabrück, but after six months in Germany he returned to F.C. Maamobi. In August 2008, was sold to F.C. Ashdod in Israel. After eight months in Israel he returned on 12 April 2009 to Ghana and signed with Eleven Wise.
International
In 2006, he was capped two times for the Black Stars.