Rashid Sumaila

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Rashid Sumaila
Personal information
Full name Rashid Sumaila[1]
Date of birth (1992-12-18) 18 December 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Cape Coast, Central region, Ghana
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Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
Qadsia SC
Number 37
Youth career
2003–2010 Ebusua Dwarfs
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2012 Ebusua Dwarfs (–)
2012–2013 Asante Kotoko (–)
2013– Mamelodi Sundowns 6 (0)
2014–2015 Asante Kotoko (loan) (–)
2015–2015 Qadsia SC (loan) 13 (1)
2015– Qadsia SC 0 (0)
International career
2011– Ghana U20 3 (0)
2011 Ghana U23 4 (0)
2011– Ghana 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 October 2014
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2014

Rashid Sumaila (Arabic: راشد السوميلا‎‎; born 18 December 1992 in Cape Coast) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for Asante Kotoko SC on loan from Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. as a centre-back and he is also a member of the Ghanaian national team.[2]

Sumaila won the 2011 Ghana Best Defender Award at the end of the 2010–11 Glo Premier League season.[2]

Club career

Astronomers and Ebusua Dwarfs

Born in Cape Coast, Rashid Sumaila, affectionately known as Rash, began his playing career in the junior ranks of Cape Coast Adisadel-based Astronomers before going on to join Glo Premier League club Ebusua Dwarfs in 2007.[citation needed] He progressed through the ranks at Ebusua Dwarfs and made his senior debut in the 2010–11 Glo Premier League season.[citation needed]

RC Lens (trial) and Asante Kotoko

French club RC Lens took an interest in young powerful centre-back after his first Ghana national football team call-up on 15 November 2011.[3]

In late November 2011, Sumaila joined the French club RC Lens on trial in the 2011–12 Ligue 2 season.[3]

In July 2012, Sumaila signed contract with Asante Kotoko.

International career

Ghana national under-20 team

2011 African Youth Championship

Sumaila was part of the Ghana national under-20 football team at the 2011 African Youth Championship.[3]

Ghana national under-23 team

2011 All-Africa Games

Sumaila was a member of the Ghana national under-23 football team that won Ghana's first All-Africa Games football Gold medal in the Football at the 2011 All-Africa Games when they defeated South Africa national under-23 football team 4–2 on penalty shoot-out at the Estádio do Zimpeto in Maputo, Mozambique on 17 September 2011.[3]

Ghana national team

2012 Africa Cup of Nations

On 7 November 2011 Sumaila was called up to the Ghana squad to face Sierra Leone national football team and Gabon national football team.[4]

In December 2011, Sumaila was named to the Ghana national football team's provisional 25-man squad for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, but was not included by the Ghana national football team technical staff for the tournament's final 23-man squad.[5]

Honours

Country

 Ghana

Individual

Ghana Football Association

References

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