Anthony Yeboah was born on 6 June 1966 and is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
22 Facts About Tony Yeboah
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Tony Yeboah is considered one of the most prominent and prolific goal scorers in Ghanaian and African football history and gained a reputation for scoring spectacular goals which often featured in Goal of the Month or Goal of the Season competitions in the 1990s.
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Tony Yeboah is most noted for his time at European clubs 1.
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Tony Yeboah played for Asante Kotoko, Cornerstones Kumasi, Okwawu United and Al-Ittihad Doha.
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Tony Yeboah was capped 59 times by Ghana, scoring 29 goals.
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Tony Yeboah had a slow first year, but then scored 17 league goals in his second Saarbrucken year.
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Tony Yeboah was the top Bundesliga scorer twice with Eintracht, in 1993 and 1994.
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Tony Yeboah later attributed a racist motive to Heynckes and was unhappy at Eintracht blocking his prospective transfer to Bayern Munich.
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Tony Yeboah scored 12 times in 21 league appearances as Leeds finished fifth in the FA Premier League and qualified for the UEFA Cup.
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Tony Yeboah scored a total of 32 goals for Leeds United in 66 appearances, and is still revered as a cult hero for the Yorkshire club due to a series of memorable goals he scored.
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Tony Yeboah told Newstalk's Team 33 in 2014 that his favourite goal was the one he scored against Liverpool.
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Until Gareth Bale equalled the feat in 2013, Tony Yeboah was the only player ever to win successive BBC Match of the Day Goal of the Month competitions, doing so in September and October 1995.
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Tony Yeboah scored three hat-tricks for Leeds; the first against Ipswich Town in the Premier League at Elland Road on 5 April 1995, which made him only the third foreign player to score a league hat-trick for Leeds.
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When George Graham took over as Leeds manager in September 1996 he used Tony Yeboah sparingly, considering him to be unfit.
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Tony Yeboah remained with his German club Hamburger SV until 2001, scoring 28 goals.
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Tony Yeboah was fined 360,000 marks by the court and then fell into another financial dispute with the lawyer who had defended him in the case.
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Tony Yeboah left in order to join Al Ittihad of the Qatar Stars League in December 2001, where he played under Austrian coach Josef Hickersberger.
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Tony Yeboah was a member of Ghana's national team for over ten years, and represented his country at three Africa Cup of Nations during the 1990s.
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Tony Yeboah reportedly scored 29 goals in 59 appearances for Ghana, the fourth highest goalscoring total in the nation's history behind Asamoah Gyan, Edward Acquah and Kwasi Owusu.
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Tony Yeboah featured for Ghana in their 1992 African Cup of Nations final defeat, but the occasion was marred by a dispute over the team captaincy.
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Tony Yeboah entered Germany with a passport which stated his year of birth as 1964.
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Tony Yeboah later modified this to 1966, explaining that he had used the pretend 1964 birth year to gain early access to senior football in Ghana when he was only 17 years old.