Daniel Nii Armah Tagoe (born 3 March 1986) is a

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ian- Kyrgyz international footballer who plays as a defender for Dushanbe-83 in the

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. He is also a member of the

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Club career

The Ghanaian-born Tagoe started his career for local side Eleven Stoppers and played later for Dansoman United. In 2005 went to Russia to sign for

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based club KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny. After two years in Russia, he went to Dordoi Bishkek where he played five seasons and acquired

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...

i citizenship. In 2009, he won the best Kyrgyzstan Player of the Year award, as the 23-year-old was instrumental to Dordoi Bishkek success that season. At the start of 2010, Tagoe and David Tetteh looked at moving to

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club

Vakhsh Qurghonteppa Vakhsh Bokhtar () formerly known as Khatlon Bokhtar is a professional football club based in Bokhtar, Tajikistan. They currently play in the top division of the country. History FC Vakhsh was founded in 1960. In Soviet times was the farm club of ...

, but ultimately returned to Dordoi Bishkek, how claimed they had a valid contract until 2012. On 30 August 2016, Tagoe signed for Al-Hala in the

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, returning to Dordoi Bishkek in December 2016, signing a two-year contract with the club. In November 2017, Tagoe and Pavel Sidorenko earned their AFC 'C' coaching diploma. On 26 October 2018, Tagoe signed a one-year contract with

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club

Chittagong Abahani Limited Chittagong Abahani Limited (), also spelled as Chattogram Abahani or Chittagong Abahoni, is a sports club based in Chittagong, Bangladesh. A wing of Abahani Limited was established at Chittagong in 1980, known as Chittagong Abahani. It is on ...

. On 26 March 2021, Tagoe signed for

club Dushanbe-83.

International career

Tagoe made his debut for the Kyrgyzstan national team on 12 May 2014 in a friendly against

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, joining fellow Africans David Tetteh, Elijah Ari and Claude Maka Kum as

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n-born players representing Kyrgyzstan on the international stage.

Personal life

Tagoe is the son of the Crown Prince of a Ghanaian tribe. In October 2015, he married his Kyrgyz girlfriend Elnura Orozbaeva, with their first child born in August 2016.

Career statistics

International

''Statistics accurate as of match played 11 January 2019''

Honours

Club

;Dordoi Bishkek *

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(6);

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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 ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Kyrgyzstan Cup The Kyrgyzstan Cup (') is Kyrgyzstan's premier knockout tournament in men's football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost ...

(4): 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 *

Kyrgyzstan Super Cup The Kyrgyzstan Super Cup is a Association football, football competition, held at the beginning of each domestic season and disputed between the winners of Kyrgyzstan League and the winners of Kyrgyzstan Cup. The first Kyrgyzstan Super Cup was hel ...

(4): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 *

AFC President's Cup The AFC Challenge League (previously known as the AFC President's Cup, abbreviated as ACGL) is an annual third-tier continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation. The competition is played among clubs from n ...

(1):

;Chittagong Abahani *

Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup (), also known as Sheikh Kamal Gold Cup, is a biennial international club association football, football tournament held in Bangladesh. The inaugural edition took place in 2015. It is hosted by the Chittagong Ab ...

(1): runner-up 2019

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tagoe, Daniel 1986 births Living people Ghanaian emigrants to Kyrgyzstan Ghanaian men's footballers Kyrgyzstani men's footballers 21st-century Kyrgyzstani sportsmen Kyrgyzstan men's international footballers Kyrgyzstani expatriate men's footballers Berekum Arsenal F.C. players FC Dordoi Bishkek players Men's association football midfielders Expatriate men's footballers in Kyrgyzstan Expatriate men's footballers in Bahrain Al-Hala SC players Chittagong Abahani Limited players Shan United F.C. players FC Alay players 2019 AFC Asian Cup players Kyrgyz Premier League players Bahraini Premier League players Bangladesh Premier League footballers Tajikistan Higher League players Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen