Peter Ofori-Quaye

Peter Ofori-Quaye (born 21 March 1980) is a former Ghanaian footballer who played as a striker. He most recently played for Ghanaian club Bechem United until he was released in 2012. He has 32 caps for Ghana national football team and played at the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations.

Peter Ofori-Quaye
Personal information
Full name Peter Ofori-Quaye
Date of birth (1980-03-21) 21 March 1980
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1997 Kalamata 34 (8)
1997–2003 Olympiacos 80 (24)
2004–2005 Liberty Professionals 0 (0)
2005–2007 OFI Crete 45 (8)
2007–2008 Hapoel Kiryat Shmona 26 (4)
2008–2009 AEL Limassol 11 (3)
2010–2011 Accra Hearts of Oak SC 0 (0)
2011–2012 Bechem United 0 (0)
Total 196 (47)
National team
1998–2007 Ghana 18 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

During the 1997–98 season in a group stage match for the UEFA Champions League, he scored for Olympiacos against Rosenborg on 1 October 1997, when he was 17 years and 195 days old, becoming the youngest player to score in the competition's history.[2] The record stood for twenty-two years, when on 10 December 2019 it was broken by Ansu Fati of FC Barcelona, then aged 17 years and 40 days.[3]

Club career

Ofori-Quaye spent most of his career in the Greek division and amassed 33 goals in his 10 seasons in the league. He came to Greece at the age of 15, signing for Kalamata FC during the Stavros Papadopoulos era of the club. The Papadopoulos era was noted for bringing in talented players from the nation of Ghana with Ofori-Quaye proving to be the most promising player ahead of teammates Samuel Johnson and Derek Boateng. At the age of 17, Ofori-Quaye signed for Greek champions Olympiacos for a Kalamata FC club record of USD $3.5 million. Ofori-Quaye attracted much attention from other clubs, scoring key goals including those in the UEFA Champions League against the likes of Rosenborg BK, Olympique Lyonnais, and Deportivo La Coruna. In the middle of Olympiacos' coach changing crisis, Ofori-Quaye was released by the club in 2003. He won 6 Greek Championships with the Piraeus based club, a Hellenic Cup, and helped them reach the quarter finals of the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League.

After a year away from football, he signed for Ghanaian club Liberty Professionals FC. In 2005, he returned to Greece signing for OFI Crete where he began to hit good form and was recalled back to his national team. On July 2007 newly promoted Israeli club Kiryat Shmona tried to sign him, but his contract was not approved in the first place with OFI reported him missing for the past three months.[4] He was transferred to Limassol club AEL Limassol in the summer of 2008.

References
  1. "Peter Ofori-Quaye - Bechem United - Stats - titles won". www.footballdatabase.eu.
  2. "Champions League youngest goalscorers: Ansu Fati, Cesc Fàbregas, Karim Benzema". UEFA. 21 October 2020.
  3. "Ansu Fati Makes History: What We Learned From FC Barcelona Versus Inter Milan". Forbes. 10 December 2019.
  4. "Gossip/Transfers: Appiah & Kuffour for EPL?". Archived from the original on 3 May 2008.

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