Gerald Asamoah

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Personal information
Gerald Asamoah
Gerald Asamoah in June 2005
Full name	Gerald Asamoah
Date of birth	October 3, 1978 (1978-10-03) (age 29)
Place of birth	Mampong, Ghana
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Striker/Winger
Club information
Current club	FC Schalke 04
Youth clubs
?–1990 1990–1994 1990–1998	SG Borken BV Werder Hannover Hannover 96
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998–1999 1999– 1999–	Hannover 96 FC Schalke 04 II FC Schalke 04	021 0(4) 001 0(0) 244 (41)
National team²
2001–	Germany	043 0(6)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 17, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of September 6, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Gerald Asamoah (born October 3, 1978 in Mampong, Ghana) is a Ghanaian-German football player.

Born in Ghana, Asamoah and his family emigrated to Germany in 1990. He played for Hannover 96 before moving to FC Schalke 04 in 1999. He made his debut for Germany in 2001 against Slovakia, the first black player to ever play for the side (however, with Erwin Kostedde and Jimmy Hartwig, there were two previous German internationals who had one black and one white parent). He scored on his debut, and went on to play in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He has two children, Jada and Jaden (*2007).

Asamoah suffers from a heart condition, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). In his case, the flesh lobe that separates the right and left heart chambers is extremely thick, which can cause an arrhythmic heartbeat. Asamoah has had no reactions to this heart condition within his football career.

[edit] Honours

National Team

World Cup runner-up: 2002
Confederations Cup Bronze medallist: 2005
World Cup Bronze medallist: 2006

[edit] External links

Career stats at fussballdaten.de (German)

v • d • e Germany squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Runners-up

1 Kahn • 2 Linke • 3 Rehmer • 4 Baumann • 5 Ramelow • 6 Ziege • 7 Neuville • 8 Hamann • 9 Jancker • 10 Ricken • 11 Klose • 12 Lehmann • 13 Ballack • 14 Asamoah • 15 Kehl • 16 Jeremies • 17 Bode • 18 Böhme • 19 Schneider • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Metzelder • 22 Frings • 23 Butt • Coach: Völler

v • d • e Germany squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Third Place

1 Lehmann • 2 Jansen • 3 Friedrich • 4 Huth • 5 Kehl • 6 Nowotny • 7 Schweinsteiger • 8 Frings • 9 Hanke • 10 Neuville • 11 Klose • 12 Kahn • 13 Ballack • 14 Asamoah • 15 Hitzlsperger • 16 Lahm • 17 Mertesacker • 18 Borowski • 19 Schneider • 20 Podolski • 21 Metzelder • 22 Odonkor • 23 Hildebrand • Coach: Klinsmann