Bismark "Nana" Adjei-Boateng (born 10 May 1994) is a Ghanaian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC () is a South Korean professional football club based in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Jeonbuk have won the K League a record nine times, including ...

Career

Boateng was signed by

Manchester City F.C. Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Assoc ...

in 2012, and immediately loaned alongside Enock Kwakwa to the Norwegian

Tippeligaen Eliteserien () is a professional association football league in Norway and the highest level of the Norwegian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Norwegian First Division ...

club

Strømsgodset Toppfotball Strømsgodset Toppfotball is a Norwegian professional association football, football club based in Gulskogen, Drammen, competing in the Eliteserien (football), Eliteserien. It is part of the multi-sports club Strømsgodset IF, founded on Fe ...

, as the pair were not eligible for a UK

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. The midfielder made his debut for Strømsgodset on 12 August 2012 in a 4–0 loss against

Tromsø IL Tromsø Idrettslag () is a Norwegian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Tromsø. They play their home games at the Romssa Arena which has a seating capacity of 6,801. Tromsø play in the Eliteserien. Despi ...

. He scored his first and second goal for the club in the match against Sogndal IL on 16 May 2013, and played an important part in the team that won the

2013 Tippeligaen The 2013 Tippeligaen was the 69th completed season of top division football in Norway. The competition began 15 March 2013 and ended on 10 November 2013, when Strømsgodset defeated Haugesund 4–0 to win their second league title. The league wa ...

league title, with 17 matches and seven goals. After the good spell at Strømsgodset, he renewed his contract with Manchester City, and was loaned out to the Norwegian club again. However, after receiving an

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injury during training in September 2013, he was kept out of action until June 2014. He came back and helped his team secure fourth place in the

2014 Tippeligaen The 2014 Tippeligaen was the 70th completed season of top division association football, football in Norway. The competition began on 28 March 2014, two weeks later than in the 2013 Tippeligaen, previous season. A three-week summer-break in June ...

, with 11 matches and two goals. In February 2015, Manchester City agreed to a third loan spell for Boateng, this time for the whole 2015 season. He signed another full-season loan with the Norwegian club on 5 January 2016. Boateng signed for

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club

Colorado Rapids The Colorado Rapids are an American professional Association football, soccer club based in the Denver metropolitan area. The Rapids compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. Founded in ...

in January 2017. He scored his first MLS goal on 11 August 2018—a dramatic stoppage-time goal that gave the Rapids a 2–1 win over the

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. On 12 July 2019, the club and Adjei-Boateng mutually agreed to terminate his contract with the club so that the player could "return to Europe to deal with a family issue". In December 2019, Boateng signed for

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side

Kuopion Palloseura Kuopion Palloseura, commonly referred to as KuPS, is a Finnish professional football club based in Kuopio. KuPS competes in Veikkausliiga, the top flight of Finnish football. The team plays its home matches at Kuopio Football Stadium. KuPS ha ...

(KuPS) on a one-year contract with an option for another year. On 2 September 2021, Boateng signed with Romanian

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club

CFR Cluj Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ) or simply CFR, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I. Founded as ''Kolozsvári Vasut ...

for an undisclosed fee, reported to be €125,000. On 13 July 2023, Boateng joined Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors for a €2 million transfer fee.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Strømsgodset *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

KuPS *

runner-up:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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CFR Cluj *

: 2021–22 *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României () is a Romanian football (soccer), football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994 Supe ...

runner-up:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

Individual *

Midfielder of the Year:

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

Team of the Year:

Team of the Season: 2021–22

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boateng, Nana 1994 births Living people Footballers from Accra Ghanaian men's footballers Manchester City F.C. players Strømsgodset Toppfotball players Colorado Rapids players Kuopion Palloseura players CFR Cluj players Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors players Eliteserien players Veikkausliiga players Major League Soccer players Liga I players K League 1 players Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Finland Expatriate men's footballers in Finland Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Expatriate men's footballers in South Korea Right to Dream Academy players Men's association football midfielders 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen Expatriate men's footballers in England