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Kwame Bonsu (born 25 September 1994) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Espérance Sportive de Tunis.He has had previous spells in Sweden with Gefle IF, Mjällby AIF, Rosengård and for Asante Kotoko in his home country Ghana.

Kwame Bonsu

Personal information
Date of birth	(1994-09-25) 25 September 1994 (age 27)
Place of birth	Buduburam, Ghana
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	ES Tunis
Number	3
Youth career
	Anokye Stars
	Heart of Lions
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2013	Heart of Lions	22	(4)
2013	→ FC Rosengård (loan)	8	(2)
2014–2015	Mjällby AIF	39	(2)
2015–2017	Gefle IF	42	(0)
2018–2019	Asante Kotoko
2019–	Espérance ST	6	(0)
National team‡
2019–	Ghana	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 March 2019

Club career

Youth Career (Heart of Lions)

At the age of 17 he got a contract to play for the Ghanaian premier league team Heart of Lions in the 2012/13 season By the end of the season he had played 22 games and scored 4 goals for the Ghanaian premier club.[1][2]

Career in Sweden

In 2013 whilst playing for Heart of Lions based in Kpando, Kwame secured a loan deal to play in Sweden for Malmo team FC Rosengard. He played eight league matches and scored two goals for Rosengård both goals were scored on 7 September 2013 in a 2–1 win over Hässleholms IF.

His performances for Heart of Lions secured him permanent contract to play for Mjallby AIF in the 2014/15 season. Bonsu played a total of 39 matches scoring two goals for Mjällby AIF[3] He then signed a 3-year contract with Gefle IF in July 2015 after leaving Mjällby AIF.[4] He played 42 league matches between 2015 and 2017 until the sadden career-threatening incident happened to him where he was accused of assaulting his then wife Maria Magnusson.[5][6]

Asante Kotoko

The former IF Gafle midfielder moved back to Ghana to join Asante Kotoko in October 2018 after serving a jail sentence of 1year 10months for sexually assaulting his wife in Sweden.[7][5] He played a key role in the team impressive run in the CAF Confederation Cup as they progressed to the group stages of the cup for the first time in 11years[8][9] and also helped the club to win the Normalization Committee Tier one cup.[10][11][6]

Espérance Sportive de Tunis

Due to his brilliant performance for Asante Kotoko in the CAF Confederation 2019 Competition[6] he secured a move to Tunisian League giants Espérance Sportive de Tunis July 2019.[12]

He played in 15 matches out of 26 matches of which he started 14 matches as Espérance ST won the 2019–20 Tunisian Ligue[13]

International

He made his debut for the Ghana national football team on 26 March 2019 in a friendly against Mauritania.[14]

Honours

Club

Espérance de Tunis

• Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (1): 2019–20[15]
• Tunisian Super Cup (1): 2020[16]

References

External links

• Kwame Bonsu at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)
• Kwame Bonsu at National-Football-Teams.com
• Kwame Bonsu at Soccerway

• https://www.cafonline.com/news-center/news/free-from-captivity-bonsu-steering-kotoko-wheel

На других языках

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- [en] Kwame Bonsu

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[fr] Kwame Bonsu

Kwame Bonsu est un footballeur ghanéen né le 25 septembre 1994. Il évolue au poste de milieu défensif à Cleopatra FC.

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[it] Kwame Bonsu

Kwame Bonsu (25 settembre 1994) è un calciatore ghanese, centrocampista del Ceramica Cleopatra.

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