Daniel-Kofi Kyereh
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Daniel-Kofi Kyereh[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 8 March 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Accra, Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | SC Freiburg | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Eintracht Braunschweig | |||
| –2014 | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
| 2014–2015 | TSV Havelse | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2018 | TSV Havelse | 61 | (16) |
| 2018–2020 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 62 | (21) |
| 2020–2022 | FC St. Pauli | 63 | (21) |
| 2022– | SC Freiburg | 12 | (2) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021– | Ghana | 18 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 July 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:15, 10 December 2022 (UTC) | |||
Daniel-Kofi Kyereh (born 8 March 1996) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a forward[2] for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg and the Ghana national team.[3]
Club career
[edit]Wehen Wiesbaden
[edit]On 6 June 2018, Kyereh signed with 3. Liga club, Wehen Wiesbaden.[4] He helped Wehen secure promotion to the 2. Bundesliga with a goal in a 3–1 victory over Ingolstadt in a relegation match in May 2019.[citation needed] Following the club's relegation in the 2019–20 season, Kyereh was released on 30 June 2020.[5]
FC St. Pauli
[edit]In July 2020, Kyereh signed a three-year contract with FC St. Pauli. In his first game in 2020 he scored two late goals to secure a point.[6]
SC Freiburg
[edit]On 27 June 2022, Kyereh signed with Bundesliga side SC Freiburg.[7] He scored his first competitive goal for Freiburg in a league match against Mainz on 1 October 2022.[8] Five days later, he scored his first goal in European football in a 2–0 win over FC Nantes in the group stage of the Europa League.[8]
International career
[edit]Kyereh was born in Ghana to a German mother and Ghanaian father, and moved to Germany at the age of 1.[9] He debuted for the Ghana national team in a 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification win over Ethiopia on 3 September 2021.[10]
On 14 November 2022, Ghana manager Otto Addo selected Kyereh as part of the final squad to represent the nation at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[11] He featured as a second-half substitute in all three matches as the Black Stars were eliminated in the group stage.[12]
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]- As of match played 13 November 2022[13]
| Club | Season | League | DFB-Pokal | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| TSV Havelse | 2014–15 | Regionalliga Nord | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 2 | ||
| 2015–16 | Regionalliga Nord | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2016–17 | Regionalliga Nord | 27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 3 | |||
| 2017–18 | Regionalliga Nord | 29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 11 | |||
| Total | 61 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 16 | ||
| Wehen Wiesbaden | 2018–19 | 3. Liga | 34 | 15 | 2 | 0 | – | 2[a] | 2 | 38 | 17 | |
| 2019–20 | 2. Bundesliga | 28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 29 | 7 | ||
| Total | 62 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 67 | 24 | ||
| FC St. Pauli | 2020–21 | 2. Bundesliga | 34 | 9 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 35 | 9 | ||
| 2021–22 | 2. Bundesliga | 29 | 12 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 32 | 13 | |||
| Total | 63 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 22 | ||
| SC Freiburg | 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4[b] | 1 | – | 15 | 3 | |
| Career total | 195 | 60 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 190 | 65 | ||
- ^ Appearances in 2. Bundesliga relegation play-offs
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
Honours
[edit]Wehen Wiesbaden
References
[edit]- ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Ghana (GHA)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 14. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ "Black Stars player admits poor performance after early AFCON exit". Adomonline.com. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
- ^ "Daniel-Kofi Kyereh". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ^ "HERZLICH WILLKOMMEN, DANIEL-KOFI KYEREH!n". svwehen-wiesbaden.de. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018.
- ^ "Daniel Kofi Kyereh released by SV Wehen Wiesbaden". footballghana.com.
- ^ ""Dynamik und Tempo": St. Pauli verpflichtet Kyereh". kicker (in German). 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Herzlich Willkommen, Kofi!". www.scfreiburg.com (in German). 27 June 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Kyereh scores for the second straight game in Freiburg 2-0 Nantes". Footy Ghana. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ "SV Wehen Wiesbaden: Youngster Kyereh hat sich vor Spiel in Rostock an Startelf herangetastet". 29 July 2020. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020.
- ^ "FIFA". fifa.com.
- ^ "Otto Addo announces squad for World Cup finals". Ghana Football Association. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- ^ "Ghana midfielder Daniel-Kofi Kyereh presented with Hearts of Oak jersey". Ghana Soccer Net. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ Daniel-Kofi Kyereh at Soccerway
- ^ Kopp, Manuel (25 June 2019). "Hessenpokal-Finale: Wiesbaden viel zu stark für Baunatal". HNA. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
External links
[edit]- Daniel-Kofi Kyereh at kicker (in German)
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- Ghanaian people of German descent
- German sportspeople of Ghanaian descent
- Footballers from Accra
- Ghanaian men's footballers
- German men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Ghana men's international footballers
- 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Bundesliga players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- 3. Liga players
- Regionalliga players
- TSV Havelse players
- SV Wehen Wiesbaden players
- FC St. Pauli players
- SC Freiburg players
- 2022 FIFA World Cup players
- 21st-century German sportsmen