Baba Iddi (born 6 July 1982) is a

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

ian

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striker.

Career

Iddi began his career with Great Africans in

Kumasi Kumasi is a city and the capital of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is the second largest city in the country, with a population of 443,981 as of the 2021 census. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region ...

before being scouted for

Alemannia Aachen Aachener Turn- und Sportverein Alemannia 1900 e. V., short Alemannia Aachen (), is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long-term fixture of the country's second division, Alemannia enjoyed a three- ...

in 2000. He was the top scorer in the reserve team and he moved to the first team in 2002 playing in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. After one season, he moved to

Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club (; ''Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Tel Aviv'') is an Israeli professional football club from Tel Aviv and part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Sport Club. Founded in 1906 in Jaffa as the HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association, i ...

in 2004. After a year, he was sold to

Asante Kotoko Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, simply known as Asante Kotoko, is a professional sports, professional association football, football club founded on 31 August 1935 and based in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Nicknamed the ''African crested ...

and played a year in Kumasi before being sold for €100.000 to Hearts of Oak in January 2005. He played another year with Hearts of Oak and moved in July 2006 to King Faisal Babes, where he was a finalist for the 2007

Ghana Premier League The Ghana Premier League is the top professional association football league in Ghana organized by the Ghana Football Association and formed in 1958 to replace a previous league incarnation, the Gold Coast Club Competition which ran from 1933 ...

All-Star Team. He tried out for

Perak FA Perak Football Club (Perak FC) was a professional football team based in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. Founded in 1921, it was one of the oldest football clubs in the country and last competed in the Malaysia Super League. Formerly overseen by the P ...

in Malaysia and

Dalian Shide Dalian Shide was a professional Chinese football club based in Dalian, Liaoning province, China who played in China's football league system between 1955 and 2012. Their home stadiums were the 55,843 capacity Dalian People's Stadium and then lat ...

in China, but did not get a contract. In August 2008, he left Perak and moved to

FK Vardar FK Vardar () is a professional Association football, football club based in Skopje, North Macedonia, which competes in the Macedonian First Football League, Macedonian First League. They are the most successful football club in Football in Maced ...

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. In summer 2009 he moved to Belgium and signed with KSC Lokeren.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iddi, Baba 1982 births Living people Footballers from Kumasi Ghanaian men's footballers Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football forwards Alemannia Aachen players Expatriate men's footballers in Germany FK Vardar players Expatriate men's footballers in North Macedonia Asante Kotoko S.C. players King Faisal F.C. players Perak F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Malaysia Belgian Pro League players K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen