Charles Gyamfi

Charles Gyamfi
Personal information
Full name Charles Kumi Gyamfi
Date of birth (1929-12-04)4 December 1929[1]
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Date of death 1 September 2015(2015-09-01) (aged 85)
Place of death Accra, Ghana
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1948 Sailors
1948-1949 Ebusua Dwarfs
1949-1954 Asante Kotoko
1954-1956 Kumasi Great Ashantis
1956-1960 Hearts of Oak
1960-1961 Fortuna Düsseldorf
National team
1950-1961 Ghana
Teams managed
1963-1965 Ghana
1972 Africa XI
1982 Ghana
1983-1984 Municipal Club
1984 Somalia U21
1988-1991 AFC Leopards
1992-1993 Ashanti Gold

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Charles Kumi Gyamfi (4 December 1929 – 2 September 2015) was a Ghanaian footballer and coach, who as a player became the first African to play in Germany when he joined Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1960,[2] and later became the first coach to lead the Ghana national football team to an Africa Cup of Nations victory.

Gyamfi had his secondary school education at the Accra Academy.[3] As coach of the Ghana national football team, he won the African Cup of Nations three times (1963, 1965 and 1982), making him the most successful coach in the competition's history.[4] This record has since been equalled by Egypt's Hassan Shehata.[5]

Gyamfi was also the coach of the Ghana national football team during their Olympic debut at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[1] He returned to coach the Olympic team for the 1972 tournament.[1]

He was a member of FIFA's Technical Study Group for the 1999 and 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship.[6][7]

In January 2008 he publicly lamented the modern obsession of players with money rather than the love of the game.[4] He died in September 2015.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Charles Gyamfi – FIFA competition record
  2. ↑ Kofi Nsiah & Sabrina Schmidt. "50 years of Ghana National Football - The German Connection". German Embassy, Accra. Retrieved 2007-12-05.
  3. ↑ "Hearts of Oak mourn the death of C.K Gyamfi". allsports.com.gh. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 Farayi Mungazi (2008-01-13). "Ghana legend laments money culture". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
  5. ↑ Hassanin Mubarak. "African Nations Cup-Winning Coaches". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "FIFA's Technical Study Group to evaluate tournament". FIFA. 2 April 1999.
  7. ↑ "FIFA's Technical Study Group to evaluate tournament". FIFA.com. 15 Jun 2001.
  8. ↑ "C.K. Gyamfi: Legendary Ghanaian footballer and coach dies". BBC. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.


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