Bernard Dong Bortey
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Bernard Dong-Bortey | ||
Date of birth | 22 September 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Nungua, Ghana | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000 | Ghapoha Readers | ||
2001–2010 | Hearts of Oak[2] | ||
2002–2003 | → Al Wasl (loan) | ||
2008–2009 | → Bnei Sakhnin (loan) | ||
2010–2013 | Aduana Stars | ||
2011–2012 | → Sông Lam Nghệ An (loan) | ||
2013 | New Edubiase United | ||
2014 | The Panthers | ||
2015 | Ånge IF | ||
2019 | Great Olympics | ||
International career | |||
1999 | Ghana U-17 | 6 | (3) |
2002–2004 | Ghana | 7 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Bernard Don Bortey (born 22 September 1982) also known Don Dada or The Serial Killer is a retired Ghanaian footballer who played as an Attacking Winger.[3]
Career
Bortey began his career 2000 with Ghapoha Readers in Tema. One year later, he moved to Accra Hearts of Oak SC and became an integral part of the "64 Battalion" and a deadly force alongside Charles Asampong Taylor, Ishmael Addo, Emmanuel Osei Kuffour. Hearts loaned him out in 2002 to Al Wasl FC in Dubai, where he played for 6 months. He returned in June 2002 to Hearts where he won the league and shared the Top Scorer award with Charles Asampong Taylor.[4] Nicknamed "Dong Dada Diouf" a reference to Senegalese forward El Hadji Diouf due to similar style of play and his dyed hair.
Since 2015 in Sweden with Ånge IF, Bortey was without club until signing with Ghanaian club Accra Great Olympics in December 2019.[5] However, in the beginning of January 2020, Olympics manager Prince George Koffie said, that he hadn't seen Bortey yet and therefore wasn't a part of his team.[6] A few days later Bortey said that he didn't receive the financial benefit's he was promised when he signed the contract and that he wouldn't play until they had paid him.[7] On 6 April 2020, Bortey officially announced his retirement and expressed, that he would like to be a coach.[8][9]
International career
Bortey played twenty-seven games for the Ghanaian national football team and scored nine times; the latest game being in the qualifying stage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup He also represented his homeland in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship in New Zealand, where he played 6 games and scored 3 goals.[10]
Honours
- Played in the African Champions League with Accra Hearts of Oak SC in 2001.
- Four-time Ghanaian Premier League Champion with Accra Hearts of Oak SC.
- CAF Confederation Cup winner with Accra Hearts of Oak SC in 2004.[11]
- Ghana Premier League joint goal-king in 2002.
- Topscorer of the 2012 GHALCA Top Four tournament.[12]
References
- ^ Template:FootballDatabase.eu
- ^ https://www.modernghana.com/sports/498669/shocker-former-ghana-star-don-bortey-reveals-he-is-38-years.html
- ^ "Revealed: Dong Bortey's open letter to Kotoko | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ Profile @ Weltfussball
- ^ Bernard Dong Bortey signs two-year deal with Great Olympics, futaa.com, 5 December 2019
- ^ Don Bortey is not part of my team - Great Olympics coach insists, footballghana.com, 8 January 2020
- ^ I won’t play for Olympics tilI they pay me - Dong Bortey, ghanaweb.com, 13 January 2020
- ^ Bernard Dong Bortey Confirms Retirement From Football, modernghana.com, 6 April 2020
- ^ "Don Bortey officially retires; announces plans to become a coach". Pulse Gh. 2020-04-06. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ Bernard Dong Bortey – FIFA competition record (archived)
- ^ [1]
- ^ "GHALCA Honours Outstanding Players And Officials". Archived from the original on 2009-12-23. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
External links
- GhanaWeb Profile
- Bernard Dong Bortey at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1982 births
- Living people
- People from Greater Accra Region
- Ghanaian footballers
- Ghanaian expatriate footballers
- Ghana international footballers
- Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. players
- Al-Wasl F.C. players
- Bnei Sakhnin F.C. players
- Aduana Stars F.C. players
- Song Lam Nghe An F.C. players
- New Edubiase United F.C. players
- The Panthers F.C. players
- Ånge IF players
- Accra Great Olympics F.C. players
- UAE Pro League players
- Ghana Premier League players
- 2011 African Nations Championship players
- Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
- Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam
- Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Equatorial Guinea
- Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates
- Expatriate footballers in Israel
- Expatriate footballers in Vietnam
- Expatriate footballers in Equatorial Guinea
- Expatriate footballers in Sweden
- Association football forwards