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Elvis Kyei Baffour
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-02-07) 7 February 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Ghana
Position(s) Left Winger
Team information
Current team
 AS Soliman
Number 14
Youth career
Liberty Professionals
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2020 Liberty Professionals 34 (13)
2020– AS Soliman 32 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 March 2022

Elvis Kyei Baffour (born 7 February 1999) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as winger for Tunisian side AS Soliman.[1] He previously played for Liberty Professionals.[2]

Club career

Rainbow FC

Baffour was born in Kumasi and he played for Kumasi-based lower-tier side Rainbow FC before joining Liberty in 2017.[3][4][5]

Liberty Professionals

Baffour started his professional career with Dansoman-based club Liberty Professionals. He made his Ghana Premier League debut during the 2018 Ghana Premier League season. He made his debut on 25 March 2018 in a 1–3 loss to West African Football Academy (WAFA), in the process playing the full 90 minutes.[6] On 11 April 2018, he scored his debut goal by scoring the only goal in a match against Ashanti Gold to grant Liberty their second victory in 4 days after going on a losing streak in 3 matches.[7] The season was cut short due the Anas Number 12 Expose which caused the dissolution of the GFA. Due to that, he finished the season with 8 matches and a goal.[2]

During the 2019 GFA Normalization Competition, played 11 matches and scored 4 goals for the Scientific Soccer Boys.[2][5] He established himself as a fan favourite within this period.[5] He scored 8 goals and provided 4 assists in his 15 league appearances for the Dansoman-based club during the 2019–20 season before the league was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ending the season as the club's top goal scorer and 4th joint league top scorer.[2][8][9] At the end of these truncated season, he was linked with a move to UAE giants Al Ain,[10][11] however he joined Tunisian side AS Soliman.[12] In his 3-year stay with the club he played 34 league matches scored 13 goals and made 4 assists.[2]

AS Soliman

On 12 October 2020, Baffour joined Tunisian side AS Soliman. He signed a 3-year contract with the club after passing his medicals.[3][4][9] In a 2–1 victory over Etoile du Sahel on 18 December 200, he made his debut by playing the full 90 minutes of the game.[13] He scored his debut goal for the club on 31 January 2021 by opening the scoreline in the 37th minute in an eventual 1–1 draw against CS Sfaxien.[14][15]

International career

Kyei Baffour has earned call-ups to the Ghana U-20 and U-23 teams.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Ghana – E. Baffour – Profile with news, career statistics and history – Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Elvis Kyei Baffour – Soccer player profile & career statistics". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Elvis Kyei-Baffour joins AS Soliman from Liberty Professionals". MyNewsGh. 13 October 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b "Liberty Professionals striker Elvis Kyei-Baffour completes move to Tunisian outfit AS Soliman". GhanaSoccernet. 12 October 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Official: Liberty Professionals poster-boy Elvis Kyei-Baffour joins Tunisian club AS Soliman". The Ghana The Guardian. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Match Report of Liberty Professionals FC vs West Africa Football Academy SC – 2018-03-25 – Zylofon Cash Premier League". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Match Report of Liberty Professionals FC vs Ashanti Gold SC – 2018-04-11 – Zylofon Cash Premier League". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Ghana Premier League 2019/2020 – Results, fixtures, tables and stats". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  9. ^ a b "OFFICIAL: Striker Elvis Kyei-Baffour Joins Tunisian Side A.S Soliman". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  10. ^ "Elvis Kyei Baffour leaves Liberty Professionals to sign 'bumper' deal with UAE giants Al Ain". Kick Ghana. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  11. ^ "Liberty Professionals star Elvis Kyei Baffour jets off to UAE to seal Al Ain FC move". GhanaWeb. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  12. ^ a b Osman, Abdul Wadudu (28 September 2020). "Liberty Professional youngster Elvis Kyei Baffour joining Tunisian side AS Soliman". Football Made in Ghana. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Soliman vs. Etoile du Sahel – 18 December 2020 – Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Elvis Kyei Baffour scores debut goal for AS Soliman". Kick Ghana. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  15. ^ "Soliman vs. CS Sfaxien – 31 January 2021 – Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 May 2021.

External links

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