Raphaël Sarfo (born 8 January 2004) is a Dutch professional

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 plays for

Challenger Pro League The Challenger Pro League, previously known as 1B Pro League is the second-highest division in the Football in Belgium, Belgian football Belgian football league system, league system, one level below the Belgian Pro League. It was created by the ...

club Patro Eisden.

Career

From

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

, Sarfo has been playing in Ajax's youth academy since 2012. He made his debut in professional football for

Jong Ajax Jong Ajax (; ), also referred to as Ajax II or Ajax 2, is a Dutch association football team. It is based in Amsterdam and competes in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. Jong Ajax is the only reserve team to have won a title in Dutch professional foot ...

against

Heracles Almelo Heracles Almelo is a Dutch professional football club based in Almelo, founded in 1903. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. Heracles won the Eerste Divisie title during the 2004–05 season, gaining promotion to t ...

on September 5, 2022. In August 2023, he signed a one year professional contract with the club, with the option of two more years. In July 2024, Sarfo joined Belgian

club Patro Eisden on a two-year contract.

International career

Sarfo has represented the Netherlands at both the U-15 and U-16 age-group levels.

Career statistics

Personal life

Although born in

The Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

, Sarfo has

Ghanaian The Ghanaian people are a nation originating in the Gold Coast (region), Ghanaian Gold Coast. Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the Republic of Ghana and are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana, numbering 34 million people as of ...

heritage.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarfo, Raphaël 2004 births Living people Dutch men's footballers Men's association football forwards Jong Ajax players K. Patro Eisden Maasmechelen players Eerste Divisie players Dutch sportspeople of Ghanaian descent Dutch expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Belgium 21st-century Dutch sportsmen