Daniel Yaw Agyei (also spelled Adjei; born 10 November 1989) is a Ghanaian professional

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who plays as a

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Club career

Agyei was born in

Dansoman Dansoman is a suburban town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, It is known as one of the largest estates in West Africa. History Dansoman was founded by the late Nii Kojo Danso I in the late 1960s, and was named after him soon after (with "m ...

, Ghana.

International career

Agyei represented Ghana at under-20 level and won with the team both the

2009 African Youth Championship The 2009 African Youth Championship is a football tournament for under 20 players. It was held in Rwanda from 18 January until 1 February 2009. It also served as qualification for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Qualification Preliminary round ...

and the

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. He earned his first senior call to the Black Stars for the World Cup qualification match against

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. He made his Ghana national team debut on 18 November 2009 in a friendly match against

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Career statistics

Honours

'Ghana *

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runner-up:

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'Ghana U20 *

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

African Youth Championship The U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, known for short as the U-20 AFCON and for sponsorship purposes as TotalEnergies U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, previously known as the African Youth Championship and the African U-20 Championship, is the biennial int ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Agyei, Daniel 1989 births Living people People from Dansoman Sportspeople from Greater Accra Region Ghanaian men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Ghana men's international footballers Ghana men's under-20 international footballers 2010 FIFA World Cup players 2010 Africa Cup of Nations players 2012 Africa Cup of Nations players 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players Ghana Premier League players Tanzanian Premier League players South African Premier Division players Free State Stars F.C. players Liberty Professionals F.C. players Medeama S.C. players Simba S.C. players Jimma Aba Jifar F.C. players African Games gold medalists for Ghana African Games gold medalists in football Footballers at the 2011 All-Africa Games Medalists at the 2011 All-Africa Games Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Tanzania Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Ethiopia Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa Expatriate men's footballers in Tanzania Expatriate men's footballers in Ethiopia 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen