Ishaku Konda (born September 11, 1999) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Jablonec in Fortuna Liga.

Club career

Wa All Stars

Konda started his career with the Wa All Stars. He played 14 Premier League games for the club in the 2016 season which helped the club win the league and were crowned

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Champions.

Juniors OÖ

In January 2019, he moved to the Austrian Bundesliga club

LASK Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as LASK (), or Linzer ASK, is an Austrian professional football club based in Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football Bundes ...

and signed a one-year contract until December 2019. He was however immediately sent out to their farm team second-tier side

FC Juniors OÖ FC Juniors OÖ is an Austrian association football club, from Pasching, Upper Austria. It was newly founded after the move of ASKÖ Pasching, who last appeared as FC Superfund, to Carinthia and the associated renaming in SK Austria Kärnten in 2 ...

play. After the end of his contract, he left LASK. He then returned to Ghana and moved to Kumasi-based Division 1 side ''Asokwa Deportivo FC''.

Paide

On 10 March 2021,

Paide Linnameeskond Paide Linnameeskond, or simply Paide, is an Estonian professional football club based in Paide that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home ground is Paide linnastaadion. Founded in 2004, the club has ...

announced via their club's website that they had signed Konda and they he would start training with the first team on 11 March 2021, after the end of his mandatory isolation period due to the

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. The signing made him the 3rd Ghanaian to join the Estonian giants after Abdul Razak Yussif and Deabeas Owusu-Sekyere.

International career

Konda has capped for Ghana at the U-20 level for the

Ghana national under-20 football team Ghana national U-20 football team known as the ''Black Satellites'', is considered to be the feeder team for the Ghana national football team. They are the former 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA U-20 World Cup Champions and U-20 Africa Cup ...

. He served as captain of the side in 2019. During both the qualification of the 2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualifiers and the

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Honours

Wa All Stars *

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: 2016 *

Ghana Super Cup The Ghana Super Cup is a football competition involving a match played between the champion of the Ghana Premier League and the winner of the Ghanaian FA Cup in Ghana. The first Ghana Super Cup competition took place in the 1996–1997 season, af ...

: 2017

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* * * 1999 births Living people Ghanaian men's footballers FC Juniors OÖ players Legon Cities FC players Men's association football defenders Ghana men's under-20 international footballers Ghana Premier League players Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Estonia Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Estonia Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic Paide Linnameeskond players Place of birth missing (living people) Ghanaian Muslims 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen {{Ghana-footy-defender-stub