Michael Kafui Helegbe (born 15 September 1985) is a Ghanaian professional

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who plays as a

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for Jordanian club Shabab Al-Aqaba.

Club career

Helegbe started his professional career with

Ghanaian Premier League The Ghana Premier League is the top professional association football league in Ghana organized by the Ghana Football Association and formed in 1958 to replace a previous league incarnation, the Gold Coast Club Competition which ran from 1933 to ...

club

Liberty Professionals Liberty Professionals Football Club is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Dansoman, Accra. History Liberty Professionals was founded in 1996 by Accra-based businessmen Felix Ansong and Alhaji Sly Tetteh. The club was one of the earli ...

in 2003, before being sent on a 6-month loan to Norwegian side

SK Brann Sportsklubben Brann is a Norwegian professional football club based in Bergen. Founded on 26 September 1908, Brann has played in the first tier of Norwegian football for 67 out of 80 seasons, the second most of any club. They play their hom ...

on 21 April 2005 with the option of extension for another two years. On 1 July 2005, Helegbe returned to Liberty Professionals. In January 2007, Helegbe signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with French

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side

En Avant de Guingamp En Avant Guingamp (, ), commonly referred to as EA Guingamp, EAG, or simply Guingamp (), is a French professional football club based in the commune of Guingamp, in France's Brittany region. The club was founded in 1912 and play in Ligue 2, ...

. The Ghanaian midfielder left Guingamp after two years, in August 2009, to join

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club

KV Oostende Koninklijke Voetbalclub Oostende, also called KV Oostende () or KVO, was a Belgian professional football club based in Ostend, West Flanders. The team was founded in 1904 as ''VG Oostende'' and had ''matricule'' number 31. The club was declare ...

on a one-year deal. On 29 September 2010, Helegbe returned to Liberty Professionals in Ghana. After two years with Liberty, in September 2012 he moved to

Asante Kotoko Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, simply known as Asante Kotoko, is a professional sports, professional association football, football club founded on 31 August 1935 and based in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Nicknamed the ''African crested ...

. On 1 December 2013, Helegbe signed for Medeama. After two seasons with

Lebanese Premier League The Lebanese First Division (), commonly known as the Lebanese Premier League (), is the top division of the Lebanese football league system. Established in 1934 and organized by the Lebanese Football Association (LFA), the Lebanese Premier Leagu ...

side

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, where he played 43 league games and scored 22 goals, Helegbe moved to

Salam Zgharta Salam Zgharta Football Club (), known as Salam Zgharta or simply Salam, is a football club based in Zgharta, Lebanon, that competes in the . Founded in 1933 as Salam Achrafieh, the club was renamed Salam Zgharta in 1971; their supporters are ...

. After one season, Helegbe moved to Jordan, playing for

Mansheyat Bani Hasan Mansheyat Bani Hasan or Al-Manshia () is a Jordanian multi-sports club based in Mafraq, and founded in 1978. Current squad Current technical staff Managerial history * Adnan Al-Shuaibat * Fares Shdifat * Mahmou ...

. In 2018, he moved to Shabab Al-Aqaba.

International career

Helegbe made his first international cap playing for the Ghana national team against

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on 24 March 2007, at the

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, Austria. He was also the captain of the Ghana Olympic football team.

Honours

Individual *

Lebanese Premier League Team of the Season The Al-Manar Football Festival () was an event organised by the Al-Manar television station between the 1996–97 and 2018–19 seasons in order to award players, managers, referees and teams who were considered to have performed the best over ...

: 2014–15

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Helegbe, Michael 1985 births Living people Footballers from Accra Ghanaian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Ghana Premier League players Liberty Professionals F.C. players Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Eliteserien players SK Brann players Expatriate men's footballers in France Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in France Ligue 2 players En Avant Guingamp players Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Challenger Pro League players K.V. Oostende players Asante Kotoko S.C. players Medeama S.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Lebanon Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Lebanon Lebanese Premier League players AC Tripoli players Salam Zgharta FC players Expatriate men's footballers in Jordan Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Jordan Mansheyat Bani Hasan SC players Shabab Al-Aqaba SC players Ghana men's international footballers 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen