David Bruce Tetteh (born 10 August 1985) is a football coach and former player who is a

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for Dordoi Bishkek. Born in Ghana, he represented the Kyrgyzstan national team at international level.

Club career

Born in Ghana, he moved to

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in 2006, playing one season in

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for

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. He moved to neighbouring Kyrgyzstan in 2007, on loan to local giants Dordoi, for whom he signed the following season. In 2008 Tetteh obtained Kyrgyz citizenship, which made him available for the national team five years later. By the end of the 2013 season, Tetteh reached the milestone of scoring at least 100 goals in

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and

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matches. After nine years with Dordoi Bishkek, Tetteh moved to Bahraini Second Division side Al-Ittihad on 30 September 2016. In September 2017, Tetteh joined

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side Tatvan Gençlerbirliği. In October 2018, Tetteh joined Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi.

International career

Tetteh came to fame in Kyrgyzstan immediately after he made his international debut at the

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tournament. He scored all of Kyrgyzstan's goals in three consecutive 1–0 victories. Kyrgyzstan manager Sergey Dvoryankov praised Tetteh, and after one of the matches of the campaign thanked "everyone who gave him Kyrgyz citizenship".

Coaching career

On 3 April 2021, Dordoi Bishkek announced the return of Tetteh as a coach for their second team. On 8 January 2022, Tetteh was promoted to coach of Dordoi Bishkek.

Career statistics

Club

International

''Statistics accurate as of match played 17 November 2015'' :''Scores and results list Kyrgyzstan's goal tally first.''

Honors

Regar-TadAZ *

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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: 2006 Dordoi Bishkek *

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 ...

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: 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 ...

: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

References

External links

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TFF Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tetteh, David 1985 births Living people Ghanaian emigrants to Kyrgyzstan Ghanaian men's footballers Kyrgyzstani men's footballers 21st-century Kyrgyzstani sportsmen Kyrgyzstan men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Kyrgyzstani expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Tajikistan Expatriate men's footballers in Kyrgyzstan Place of birth missing (living people) Tajikistan Higher League players Kyrgyz Premier League players FC Dordoi Bishkek players 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen