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KUMASI ASANTE KOTOKO


THE LEGEND KARIM ABDUL RAZAK

C.K.GYAMFI AND OSEI KOFI


PAT THOMAS' KOTOKO SONG


ANTHEM


ATAKORA MANU 'S KOTOKO SONG


PLAYERS COMPOSE MUSIC


CHANTING SONG


OPOKU AFRIYIE




EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH OPOKU AFRIYIE BAYIE

ONE ON ONE WITH OPOKU NTI


KYENKYENHENE


MALIK JABIR


KOTOKO AND ZAMALEK


ABUBAKARI GARIBA


FRANCIS KUMI TALKS ABOUT KOTOKO


FORMER KOTOKO GOALKEEPER PAPIO


JUJU IN SPORTS?  DO YOU BELIEVE IT?


HISTORY WITH OSEI KOFI


NANA ADDO MEETS EX-KOTOKO AND BLACK STARS PLAYER MFUM AT HWIDIEM-2019


EX-KOTOKO PLAYER SETS UP SCHOOL FOR FREE




PHOTOS
1980S X 
MOHAMMED ODOOM, OPOKU NTI, RAZAK
· December 18, 2015Edited

Asante Kotoko SC players during training session in the mid 1980's.

From L-R: Kwasi Appiah 'Mayele', goalkeeper Mohammed Odoom, 'King' George Arthur, Samuel Opoku Nti 'Lord Zico', Sarfo Gyamfi 'Black President' & golden boy' Karim Abdul Razak.

Great players by all standards & legends of the Ghana Football League. May the soul of 'King' George rest in peace.

Photo Credit: Abu Karim — with Saarrah Mensah, Zeid Abu, Francis Agginie Razak and 14 others.


GHANA Football Legacy Adolf Armah was a Hearts of Oak player. I got their photos as well, will post them later... keep visiting the page.




  • GHANA Football Legacy The other 5 are all alive.
  • GHANA Football Legacy all in Europe.
  • Patrick Ametepeh This picture was taken in the early 7ties NOT 8ties. Razak was in the USA during the 8ties.....

  • Ransford Nyamekye Very interesting

  • Evans Filash Rush I love it
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  • David Anane the pocupine
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  • Sheriff Mohammed And dont forget in 1980 league when the fabulous boys descended in Accra and reduce to shambles the soccer kingdom of Accra Hearts of oak lol. I was there

  • Kwadwo Owusu-Ansah The firs time i went very close to the black stars was when king George took me to the team hotel Lassab in Kumasi

  • Malik Ali Don't forget the Champion of Champions match in the 79/80 season when the Phobians featuring the FEARSOME 5 descended on Kumasi to teach Kotoko a lesson. ..lol. I was there.
  • Kofi Nyantakyi One of Ghana's greatest teams ever!


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  • Malik Ali C'mon Sheriff Mohammed we talkin about champion of Champions which is bigger than the league. .lol

  • Tawiah Ntiamoah Great players all time in Ghana

  • Kwadwo Owusu-Ansah Eiiiiii eiiiiiii "those days" are always the best compared to "these days"
  • Sheriff Mohammed Hahaha Malik it was a sweet memory

  • Ben Kufuor Wonderful very perfect. Those were the times of real fun in sports. A path from the passlng of George, are the rest still alive? I have been away since then and have lost track.

  • Nana Kwaku Uncles Mayele, The King, A. Razak, Odoom, S. Gyamfi, O. Nti. …
  • Nana Kwaku Love this Pic. Classic Stuff. ...
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  • Johny Walker Nice shot Bro
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  • Kwadwo Owusu-Ansah King send me your what app number

  • Ibrahim Anyas Old bones are tired







    • Asante Kotoko SC Squad for 1998/99 league season, @ the Kumasi Sports Stadium!

    Top Row include (L-R); Coach Ebo Mends, Goalkeeper Michael Abu, Godwin Ablordey, Joe Hendricks 'Oreba', Mohammed Polo, George Siaw, 'King George Arthur, goalkeeper Constance Mantey & Kalilu Dramani (c)

    Bottom Row include (L-R); Kwaku Duah, Gabriel Opoku Ware, Ernest Boateng, Emmanuel Ampiah 'Togo', Mohammed Polo & Prince Adu-Poku

    N/B: Hearts of Oak won the league title that season. This was Herbert Mensah's first year in charge as Kotoko Chief Executive Officer.


    Asante Kotoko players celebrating a goal in a match at the Kumasi Sports Stadium in 2003.
    N/B: Kotoko were league champions that season for the 1st time in a decade (Previous winning season= 1992/ 93)

    From L-R: Yussif Chibsah, Michael Osei 'Ember', Charles 'Terror' Taylor & Edmund Owusu Ansah 'Owuo'.     — with Yussif Chibsah, Charles Taylor, Favoured Man, Ghana National Football Team, Kumasi Asante Kotoko Fc, Asante Kotoko Supporters Trust,KNUST, Asante Kotoko S.C., Ghana Football Association, Ghana Football Fundraising Project, Asante Kotoko FC and Asante Kotoko Sporting Club.



    · October 4, 2015Edited

    Asante Kotoko players L-R; Edward Agyeman Duah 'Rambo', 'King' George Arthur of blessed memory & Stephen Frimpong Manso 'Mayanga' in the dressing room before a match at the Kumasi Sports Stadium during the 1992/93 league season.

    N/B: That was George Arthur's 2nd of 3 spells at Kotoko after returning from Europe and playing for his boyhood club BA United the previous season. King George would play for Kotoko again in a 3rd spell after a stint with Egyptian giant Al Ahly where he later got a FIFA sanction for breach of contract.     — with Rambo Lord, Emmanuel Kyei Boate, Lawrence Qwesi Levisten, Jones Asante Mfodwo, Nana Yaw Ofori, Nana Amponsah Silva, Nana Sacci, Asante Kotoko S.C., Sunyani, Kumasi Asante Kotoko Fc, Brong Ahafo Regional Sports Callers Association, Asante Kotoko Sporting Club and Kumasi, Ghana.
                                                                            

    · October 17, 2015Edited

    1991 Asante Kotoko League Winning Squad:

    Upper Row (L-R): Safianu, Kwaku Fori, Bernard White, Opeele Aboagye, Isaac Otoo & Ibrahim Tanko.

    Squating Row (L-R): Kwaku Kyere, Yaw Akoto, Kojo Sumaila, Opoku Nti (Captain), Bright Obeng, Robert Eshun.

    Photo Credit: Isaac Otoo     






    · October 17, 2015Edited

    Asante Kotoko legend Samuel Opoku Nti in one of his stints abroad in the late 1980's. — with Samuel Opoku Nti, Kumasi Asante Kotoko Fc, Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, Fabulous Hour of Kumasi Asante Kotoko ( Sporting Club ) and Asante Kotoko S.C..

    · October 17, 2015Edited

    Asante Kotoko's Edward Agyemang Duah with team mate Isaac Otoo receiving the SWAG Cup at the Kumasi Sports Stadium in 1991. — with Rambo Lord, Kwadwo Okyere Darko, Isaac Otoo, Jones Effah, Asante Kotoko S.C., Asante Kotoko Sporting Club and Kumasi Asante Kotoko Fc.









        
                                                                          





    · December 18, 2015Edited
    LEGENDS PROPER:
    A young 'Golden Boy' Karim Abdul Razak of Kumasi Cornerstone challenges giant Malik Jabir of Asante kotoko in the Old 1st Division League in 1975 league season @ the Kumasi Sports Stadium.

    Photo Credit: Abu Karim     — with Henry Foxzy Brown, Nana Okrah-Gyamfi Kumaning I, Robert Saba and 20 others.





    · November 4, 2015Edited

    Photo: Taken before a league match between Akosombo Textiles FC (AKOTEX) and Asante Kotoko in the late 1960's.

    Osei Kofi (left in photo) is one of the highly rated legends of the Ghana League. A true Kotoko legend who despised a lucrative move to Stoke City after recommendation from 1966 England world cup winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks, who made a direct comparison of Osei to the legendary George Best at the time.

    Osei was part of the 1970 Africa conquering Kotoko team, and won several Championship with the Kumasi club.
    · November 4, 2015Edited

    Robert Mensah is also a legend of the Ghana League playing for Ebusua Dwarfs before moving to Asante Kotoko where he made his name. He won the 1970 African Club Championship with Kotoko, and played at the 1968 Tokyo Olympics, as well as finals in Africa Cup of Nations with Ghana the same year.

    Conicidentally, he died prematurely in 1971, same year another legend Shamo Quaye was born.

    Till date, Bob Mensah remains one of the best goalkeepers to have come from the African continent.
    Prekese Ghanamedia When we were young, we were told that nobody ever scored against him. His legendary status was so high to us that we associated some sort of mystical powers to his skiils. May he rest in Peace.





    · December 25, 2015Edited
     
    ...on this day 30th May 1987, Asante Kotoko 5-1 Zamalek @ Kumasi Sports Stadium.

    For clarity of any doubt on the previous post, this is the only photo i could lay my hands on which was taken on that fateful day in Kumasi. The other photo was taken around the same era but different match. Unfortunately it's not a group photo.

    Karim Abdul Razak (pictured) was the captain on the day and Kotoko wor... See More
     — with Benjamin Opoku Agyemang, Opoku Agyemang Benjamin, Henry Francis Abban, Benjamin Opoku Agyeman, Kwasi Amo-Mensah and Kwadwo Okyere Darko.




    • Kwadwo Okyere Darko Thanks Ghana Football Legacy. I think I still have my copy of the graphic sports from that day somewhere in my library. Will find a way to send you copies when I lay my hands on it.
      But, yes, I so remember this day. I also remember that the late J      ones Attoquayefio and Sam Ardey of the Black Stars management then we're also quite instrumental as they helped coach Malik out for that match in view of an impending Black Star qualifier soon after the match.
      That period was so important in Ghana sports history because not only did it coincide with the victorious Conerstone campaign in WAFU, it also happened soon after Michael Ebo Danquah had wrestled the WBC intercontinental flyweight belt from Constazo ' Little' Baggaio of the Philippines in Accra.
      Those were the days oo, Ghana Football Legacy!!!!!
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    • Marc 'Mystic' Baffoe-Bonnie The Golden Boy...that day,dude ran midfield at a strolling pace..skill,dexterity,no rushing..that left foot!!Too much.
      Those were the days gone by,when Faabu was a force to be reckoned with on the African continent.
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    • Sam George Name more stuff,this is interesting and refreshing.
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    • Samuel Kissiedu Kofi Abbrey was the man of the match with his legendary crosses and corner kicks that fetched some of the goals.
      It was the day Ghana stood still. Fans and foes alike of Kotoko poured onto the streets to celebrate the gallantry of the reds; the rise       of the Porcupine Warriors from grass to grace before the capacity crowd. LIike biblical Zaccheaus , some fans climbed the floodlights right up to the very top to catch a glimpse of the unfolding spectacle. The amazing fighting spirit exhibited by Kotoko testified to the resilience of the Ghanaian when confronted with adversity.
      The victory was so infectious and fired a sense of nationalism that the entire squad was airlifted to Accra following day for government to bask in the glory too . That was how the power of soccer glued our country at a time of political divisions and acrimony. .
      Then Kotoko boss Ofori Nuako alias Pao became an instant hero for executing the biggest humiliation in Zamaleks history. The Egyptians looked dazed throughout the epic game and did not know what hit them . Back to Cairo the attributed the defeat to African juju. But in reality, they lost to a fired and focused Kotoko that had done a proper homework and were poised for victory. The Egyptians were complacent and tactically inferior.
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      • GHANA Football Legacy yes 3 of Abbrey's corner kicks and crosses resulted in goals to both Prince Opoku's goals and Sarfo Gyamfi's equaliser. Sarfo's 2nd goal was a powerful long range shot, Saarrah Mensah came on late to finish from close range. Razak was very instrumental in this match as his dexterity and experience really came to bare. Thomas Hammond was also a pillar at the back both in air and on ground. Zamalek did sub their keeper to keep them in the game but to no avail.
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    • Kwabena Oppong Thomas Hammond was first in the air(KLM)
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    • Star Chico Abdul Razak Tanko


    · December 22, 2015Edited


    THE MIRACLE OF KUMASI (30/05/1987):

     (Line-up for this match slightly different from the squad in the photo, though the same season)

     In this photo;... See More
    — with Owura Afrane, Unusual Paako, Prince Amoako and 15 others.


    Kwadwo Dwomoh so who was the captain?




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