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Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was a Ghanaian football player and coach.[3]

Cecil Jones Attuquayefio

Personal information
Full name	Cecil Jones Attuquayefio
Date of birth	(1944-10-18)18 October 1944
Place of birth	Accra, Ghana
Date of death	12 May 2015(2015-05-12) (aged 70)
Place of death	Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1962–1965	Ghana Academicals
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1962–1963	Accra Standfast F.C.
1963–1965	Ghana Republicans F.C.
1966–1974	Great Olympics
National team
1965–1974	Ghana
Teams managed
1974–1984	Great Olympics
1982–1984	GFA (Vice-President)
1985–1987	Ghana (Assistant Coach)
1988–1989	Okwawu United
1989–1990	Stade Abidjan
1990–1993	Goldfields Obuasi
1993–1995	Goldfields Academy
1995–1997	GFA (General Secretary)
1996	Ghana U-23 (Assistant Coach)
1998–1999	Ghana U-17
1998–2001	Hearts of Oak
2000–2001	Ghana
2002	Liberty Professionals F.C.
2003–2004	Benin
2004–	Liberty Professionals F.C. (Technical Director)
2006–2015	Ghana (scout)[1]
2007–2009	Ghana (Ministry of Sport)[2]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

International career

Attuquayefio played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the 1965 African Nations Cup.[4]

Coaching career

Attuquayefio managed the Benin national team to the 2004 African Nations Cup,[5] Hearts of Oak to the 2000 African Champions League title[6] and the 2004 CAF Confederation Cup.[7] He also managed Ghana's national team.[8] In 2008–09 Attuquayefio coached Liberty Professionals F.C.[9] and became the title coach of the Century.[10]

Attuquayefio was named African coach of the year in 2000 after his club Accra Hearts of Oak of Ghana won the African Champions league with only one loss throughout the entire tournament (to DC Motema Pembe).

In 2015, Jones Attuquayefio died in the early hours of 12 May 2015 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana's capital, from throat cancer.[11][12]

References

External links

• Cecil Jones Attuquayefio – FIFA competition record (archived)

На других языках

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- [en] Cecil Jones Attuquayefio

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[fr] Cecil Jones Attuquayefio

Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (né le 18 octobre 1944 à Accra - mort le 12 mai 2015 à Accra[1]) est un ancien footballeur ghanéen, reconverti comme entraîneur.

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[it] Cecil Jones Attuquayefio

Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (Accra, 18 ottobre 1944 – 12 maggio 2015) è stato un allenatore di calcio e calciatore ghanese, di ruolo attaccante.

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[ru] Аттукваефио, Сесил Джонс

Сесил Джонс Аттукваефио (англ. Cecil Jones Attuquayefio; родился 18 октября 1944 года, Аккра, Золотой Берег — 12 мая 2015 года, Аккра, Гана) — бывший ганский футболист и тренер[1].

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