Ishaku Konda (born September 11, 1999) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a
defender for
Jablonec in
Fortuna Liga
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Club career
Wa All Stars
Konda started his career with the
Wa All Stars.
He played 14 Premier League games for the club in the 2016 season which helped the club win the league and were crowned
Ghana Premier league Champions.
Juniors OÖ
In January 2019, he moved to the Austrian Bundesliga club
LASK
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and signed a one-year contract until December 2019.
He was however immediately sent out to their farm team second-tier side
FC Juniors OÖ play. After the end of his contract, he left LASK.
He then returned to Ghana
and moved to Kumasi-based Division 1 side ''Asokwa Deportivo FC''.
Paide
On 10 March 2021,
Paide Linnameeskond announced via their club's website that they had signed Konda and they he would start training with the first team on 11 March 2021, after the end of his mandatory isolation period due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. The signing made him the 3rd Ghanaian to join the Estonian giants after Abdul Razak Yussif and Deabeas Owusu-Sekyere.
International career
Konda has capped for Ghana at the U-20 level for the
Ghana national under-20 football team
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He served as captain of the side in 2019. During both the qualification of the
2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualifiers and the
2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
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Honours
Wa All Stars
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Ghana Premier League: 2016
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Ghana Super Cup: 2017
References
External links
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1999 births
Living people
Ghanaian men's footballers
FC Juniors OÖ players
Legon Cities FC players
Men's association football defenders
Ghana men's under-20 international footballers
Ghana Premier League players
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Estonia
Paide Linnameeskond players
Place of birth missing (living people)
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