Yaw Amankwah Mireku (born 25 November 1979) is a

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ian former professional

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who played as a

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. He was part of the 64 battalion team of Hearts of Oak, they won the

2000 CAF Champions League The 2000 CAF Champions League was the 36th awarding of Africa's premier club football tournament prize organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 4th prize under the CAF Champions League format. Hearts of Oak SC of Ghana d ...

and

2004 CAF Confederation Cup The 2004 CAF Confederation Cup was the first edition of the newly created CAF Confederation Cup. Hearts of Oak of Ghana beat fellow Ghanaians Asante Kotoko Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, simply known as Asante Kotoko, is a professional sports, ...

Club career

Born in

Accra Accra (; or ''Gaga''; ; Ewe: Gɛ; ) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , had a population of ...

, Amankwah began his career with Hearts of Oak and was the team captain. After ten years with Hearts of Oak he left to sign with

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team

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on 12 June 2007. In January 2008 he signed a contract with Poly Tank Division One League side Pure Joy Stars. Mireku left Pure Joy Stars after eleven months and signed with

Ghana 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 ...

club

All Stars F.C. Legon Cities FC (formerly known as Wa All Stars FC) is a football club from Ghana currently based in Accra, Greater Accra. The club won the 2016 Ghanaian Premier League. History The club was founded in January 2006 through investments by Kwesi ...

in December 2008.

International career

Mireku played for the Black Stars 16 games from 2001 to 2005. He played his first game for the Black Stars on 11 March 2001 against

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.Ghana's World Cup advantage
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Honours

Hearts of Oak *

: 1997–98, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004,2006–07 *

Ghanaian FA Cup The Ghana FA Cup, currently known as the MTN FA Cup for sponsorship purposes, is the annual knockout competition in Ghanaian football created in 1958, a year after the independence of Ghana. Open to all Ghanaian football clubs, the competiti ...

: 1999, 2000 * Ghana Super Cup: 1997, 1998

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* Living people 1979 births Footballers from Accra Men's association football defenders Ghanaian men's footballers Legon Cities FC players Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. players Ghana men's international footballers 2002 African Cup of Nations players Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in India Expatriate men's footballers in India {{Ghana-footy-defender-stub