Ebenezer Benyarko Hagan (born 1 October 1975 in

Kumasi Kumasi is a city and the capital of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is the second largest city in the country, with a population of 443,981 as of the 2021 census. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region ...

) is a former

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ian international

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who last played for

Sekondi Hasaacas F.C. Sekondi Hasaacas FC is a Ghanaian professional association football club based in Sekondi-Takoradi. The club won the Ghana Premier League in 1977 and is currently participating in the Division One League, Ghana, Division One League following rele ...

in the

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Career

He played eight years in

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for Kalamata F.C., Iraklis Saloniki and

PAOK FC PAOK FC (, ), short for "Pan-Thessalonian Sports club, Athletic Club of Constantinople, Constantinopolitans" (), and commonly known as PAOK Thessaloniki, PAOK Salonika or simply PAOK, is a Greek professional Association football, football cl ...

and played 235 games and scored 31 goals. After 8 years in

he moved to

APOEL APOEL FC (; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") is a Cypriot professio ...

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, Cyprus, where he played for six months, appearing in 10 games and scoring 1 goal. On 1 September 2006 he moved to

, where he ended his career in 2007.

International

He was a member of the

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at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

in Atlanta. He played 4 games and scored 1 goal.Africans scoring exploits
on www.news.bbc.co.uk

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* * 1975 births Living people Ghanaian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Ghana men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Ghana Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Super League Greece players Cypriot First Division players APOEL FC players PAOK FC players Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) players Kalamata F.C. players Ashanti Gold S.C. players Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Footballers from Kumasi {{Ghana-footy-midfielder-stub