Umar Bashiru (born 10 July 1997) is a

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

ian 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 currently plays as a

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for

Ethiopian Premier League The Ethiopian Premier League (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ፕሪምየር ሊግ), known as the BetKing Ethiopian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the top tier association football league of Ethiopia run by the Ethiopian Premier League ...

side Ethiopian Nigd Bank ( CBE) FC,

Career

Bashiru started his professional career with for

West African Football Academy West African Football Academy Sporting Club or WAFA for short, is a Ghanaian professional football club based near Sogakope in the Volta Region. They are competing in the Ghana Premier League. The 2016–17 season was a successful one for WAFA as ...

(WAFA) in 2015. He went on to play for them and serve as club captain till he moved to Kumasi-based club

Asante Kotoko SC Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, simply known as Asante Kotoko, is a professional football club founded on 31 August 1935 and based in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Nicknamed the '' Porcupine Warriors'', and "kum apem a apem beba" in their ...

. He played for the club for 2 seasons till he moved to Karela United as a free agent ahead of the 2020–21 season after terminating his contract with Asante Kotoko before the commencement of the 2019–20 season.

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* 1997 births Living people Ghanaian men's footballers Ghana Premier League players Men's association football midfielders West African Football Academy players Asante Kotoko S.C. players Karela United FC players Ghanaian Muslims 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen {{Ghana-footy-midfielder-stub