Full name Lee Addy Name Lee Addy Siblings Cadabra Addy Years Team Weight 74 kg | Number 14 Height 1.79 m Playing position Role Footballer | |
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Date of birth (1990-07-07) 7 July 1990 (age 25) Current teams FK Cukaricki (Defender), Ghana national football team (Defender) Similar People Isaac Vorsah, Anthony Annan, Jonathan Mensah, Samuel Inkoom, Prince Tagoe | ||
Lee addy
Lee Addy (born 7 July 1990 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who playes as a defender for Lusaka Dynamos in the Zambian Premier League. He played for Ghana's national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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- Lee addy
- Lee addy u dinamu
- Red Star Belgrade
- Dalian Aerbin
- Dinamo Zagreb
- ukariki
- Age controversy
- Early career 2010 African Nations Cup
- 2010 World Cup
- Career statistics
- Club
- Individual
- National team
- References
Lee addy u dinamu
Red Star Belgrade
At the end of the World Cup he received a call to move to Europe to play with Serbian SuperLiga club Red Star Belgrade and he signed a contract. Since then he has been a regular centre-back in both, his club and Ghana national team.
Dalian Aerbin
On 4 January 2012, Addy completed a three-year deal with newly promoted Chinese Super League side Dalian Aerbin and was handed the squad number 13 after passing a medical test. The move from Serbian club Red Star Belgrade was for a reported transfer fee of $2.2million.
Dinamo Zagreb
On 10 February 2013 it was announced that Addy had been loaned to Dinamo Zagreb for a year.. He signed for Dinamo Zagreb in January 2014. He ended his Dinamo Zagreb spell in late July 2015.
Čukarički
Addy signed a one-year contract with FK Čukarički on August 31, 2015.
Age controversy
Before the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Addy's age became the subject of controversy. When he debuted in the national team in September 2009, he was registered with date of birth 26 September 1985. That statement also stated on most sites on the web. Even FIFA lists Addy as born on 26 September 1985 in the official documents. But when Addy was reported in Ghana's World Cup squad, he had suddenly been five years younger and lists as born on 7 July 1990. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has been in contact with FIFA regarding the matter. FIFA informed that they did a passport control on Addy, but they didn't find anything suspicious. Also there was a lack of comparative material, because Addy never got any previous passport control.
Early career & 2010 African Nations Cup
He began his senior career in 2007 by playing with Nania F.C. but soon after, in 2008 he will move to the ambitious Bechem Chelsea playing in the Ghana Premier League. It was during this period, more precisely on 30 September 2009, that Addy made his debut for the Ghanaian national team as part of a domestic-based team that played a friendly against Argentina. He was part of the Ghana national squad at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations having played 4 matches including the lost final against Egypt. and since then he quickly became a regular player of the national team.
2010 World Cup
Addy was called up by Ghana's national team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup In Ghana's opening game at the 2010 World Cup, he entered as a substitute in a 1–0 win over Serbia. He also played in the 1–1 draw against Australia in the group stage, after which he appeared again as a substitute in the Round of 16 2–1 victory over the United States, but failed the quarter-finals match against Uruguay because of accumulated yellow cards, where Ghana was eliminated in a penalty shoot-out.
Career statistics
As of 27 June 2012Club
Dinamo Zagreb:
Croatian First League: 2012–13
Croatian Supercup: 2013