Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was 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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player and coach.

International career

Attuquayefio played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the

1965 African Nations Cup The 1965 African Cup of Nations was the fifth edition of the biennial African association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) hosted in Tunisia from 12 and 21 November 1965. This was the final edition of t ...

Coaching career

Attuquayefio managed the Benin national team to the

2004 African Nations Cup The 2004 African Cup of Nations was held from January 24, 24 January to February 14, 14 February 2004 in Tunisia. It was the 24th edition of the biennial international men's football championship of Africa, organized by the Confederation of Afri ...

, Hearts of Oak to the 2000 African Champions League title and the

2004 CAF Confederation Cup The 2004 CAF Confederation Cup was the first edition of the newly created CAF Confederation Cup. Hearts of Oak of Ghana beat fellow Ghanaians Asante Kotoko Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, simply known as Asante Kotoko, is a professional sports, ...

. He also managed Ghana's national team. In 2008–09 Attuquayefio coached Liberty Professionals F.C. and became the title coach of the Century. Attuquayefio was named African coach of the year in 2000 after his club Accra Hearts of Oak of Ghana won the African Champions league with only one loss throughout the entire tournament (to DC Motema Pembe). In 2015, Jones Attuquayefio died in the early hours of 12 May 2015 at the

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) is a public teaching hospital established in 1923 and located in the Ablekuma South District in the Accra Metropolitan District of the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. It is the only public tertiary hospital in th ...

Accra Accra (; or ''Gaga''; ; Ewe: Gɛ; ) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , had a population of ...

's capital, from throat cancer.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones Attuquayefio 1944 births 2015 deaths Ghanaian men's footballers Ghana men's international footballers 1965 African Cup of Nations players 1968 African Cup of Nations players 1970 African Cup of Nations players Africa Cup of Nations–winning players Footballers from Accra Okwawu United S.C. players Ghanaian football managers Ghana national football team managers Benin national football team managers Ghanaian expatriate football managers Deaths from throat cancer Deaths from cancer in Ghana 2004 African Cup of Nations managers Men's association football forwards Olympic footballers for Ghana Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. managers Ashanti Gold S.C. managers Accra Great Olympics F.C. managers Liberty Professionals F.C. managers Ga-Adangbe people Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Benin Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Ivory Coast Expatriate football managers in Benin Expatriate football managers in Ivory Coast Real Republicans F.C. (Ghana) players 20th-century Ghanaian sportsmen