Lawrence Quaye
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Lawrence Awuley Quaye | ||
Date of birth | 22 August 1984 | ||
Place of birth | Accra, Ghana | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Central midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Al-Markhiya | ||
Number | 48 | ||
Youth career | |||
Liberty Professionals | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2002 | Liberty Professionals | ||
2003–2004 | Saint-Étienne | 28 | (1) |
2004–2017 | Al-Gharafa | 224 | (31) |
2017– | Al-Markhiya | 12 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2001 | Ghana U-18 | 3+ | (0) |
2010– | Qatar | 31 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1/7/2015 |
Lawrence Awuley Quaye (born 22 August 1984) is a Ghana born naturalised Qatari footballer who plays for Qatari side Al-Markhiya and Qatar national team.
He also known as Anas Mubarak (Arabic: أنس مبارك)[1] after earning the Qatari passport and just known as Lawrence on his shirt (at 2011 Asian Cup only).
Club career
Early career
Born in Accra, Quaye began his career with Liberty Professionals.[2] In January 2003 he was signed by French Ligue 2 side Saint-Étienne.[3] He played his first Ligue 2 match and first league start on 8 March 2003, a 1–1 draw with Wasquehal. He scored his only goal for the club on 6 December 2003, scored the only goal of the match against Gueugnon.
Al-Gharafa
He then left for Qatari club Al-Gharafa.[citation needed]
He played 5 times in 2006 AFC Champions League, and scored twice (1 goal each) against Al-Karamah on matchday 3 & 4.[4][5] He missed matchday 5 due to injury.[6]
He also a regular starter in 2008 and 2009 edition, played 4 and 5 games respectively. In 2010 edition, he only played in the both legs of the quarter-finals, losing to Al-Hilal 4–5 in aggregate.
International career
He played for the Black Starlets at 2001 Meridian Cup, including a 1–1 draw with Portugal U18,[7][8] losing to Italy U18 0–1 as captain.[9] and losing 0–2 to Spain.[10]
In 2010, he changed to play for Qatar at 2011 AFC Asian Cup, which Qatar as host.[11] He capped for his adoptive nation in warm-up friendlies, against Haiti,[12][13] Egypt,[14] Estonia,[15] Iran and North Korea.[16] He also played all 3 matches against Kuwait, Yemen and Saudi Arabia in 2010 Gulf Cup of Nations.[17] He was the starting central midfielder in all 3 group stage matches and in the quarter-finals, all partnered with Wesam Rizik. After the cup, he played against Russia to prepare for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC). He also capped for Qatar in an unofficial friendly against FC Lausanne-Sport[18] and FC Bayern Munich.
Personal life
Lawrence is the brother of Abdullah Quaye (born Awuley Quaye Jr.). He is the son of ex Olympics & Ghanaian international defender Awuley Quaye, Sr.
Club career statistics
Statistics accurate as of 21 August 2011[19]
Club | Season | League | League | Cup1 | League Cup2 | Continental3 | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Al-Gharafa | 2004–05 | QSL | 25 | 1 | ||||||||
2005–06 | 25 | 0 | ||||||||||
2006–07 | 25 | 5 | ||||||||||
2007–08 | 24 | 6 | ||||||||||
2008–09 | 26 | 4 | ||||||||||
2009–10 | 9 | 3 | ||||||||||
2010–11 | 20 | 7 | ||||||||||
2011–12 | ||||||||||||
Total | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||
Career total | 154 | 26 |
1Includes Emir of Qatar Cup.
2Includes Sheikh Jassem Cup.
3Includes AFC Champions League.
Honours
- Ligue 2: 2004 (Saint-Étienne)
- Qatar Stars League: 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 (Al-Gharafa)
- Emir of Qatar Cup: 2009 (Al-Gharafa)
- Qatari Stars Cup: 2009 (Al-Gharafa)
- Qatar Crown Prince Cup: 2010 (Al-Gharafa)
- Sheikh Jassem Cup: 2006, 2008 (Al-Gharafa)
References
- ^ "Al Arabi and Al Gharafa Stars Visit ASPIRE Talent Centre". Albawaba.com. TheFreeLibrary.com Archive. 25 November 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ "Liberty's Awuley Quaye takes four-match ban". Accra Mail Online. Re-Published by ghanaweb.com. 19 June 2002. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ "CAF Magazine: Issue 77" (PDF). CAF. April 2003. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ "Four star Gharafa stun Al Karama". The AFC. ca 12 April 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-09-11. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
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suggested) (help) - ^ "Mali Stumble As Africa Recovers in Meridian Cup". allAfrica.com. 31 January 2001. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ "Portugal and Ghana go half and half". UEFA.com. 29 January 2001. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
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suggested) (help) - ^ "Ghana – Italia". Italian Football Federation (FIGC) Archive (in Italian). 31 January 2001.
- ^ "Meridian Cup: Starlets lose to Spain". GhanaWeb.com. 2 February 2001. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ "Lawrence will boost Qatar: Yasser". The AFC. 7 January 2011. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
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- ^ "Qatar 0 – 1 Haiti". CaribbeanFootballDatabase.com. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ "Qatar stun Egypt 2–1". The AFC. 17 December 2010. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
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- ^ "Qatar lose to DPRK in final tune-up". The AFC. 1 January 2011. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
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- ^ QSL.com.qa – Lawrence Quaye Archived 3 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Anas Mubarak at Al-Gharafa website Template:Ar icon at WebCite (archived 2011-01-08). Additional archives: Archive.is.
- Lawrence Quaye at National-Football-Teams.com
- Lawrence Awuley Quaye – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
- Anas Mobarak at Soccerway
- Lawrence Quaye at WorldFootball.net
- Use dmy dates from July 2013
- Ghanaian footballers
- Qatari footballers
- Qatar international footballers
- 2011 AFC Asian Cup players
- Ligue 2 players
- AS Saint-Étienne players
- Al-Gharafa Sports Club players
- Al-Markhiya Sports Club players
- Association football midfielders
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Sportspeople from Accra
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Qatar Stars League players
- Ghanaian emigrants to Qatar
- Naturalised citizens of Qatar