Patrick Amoah (born 18 August 1986) is a Swedish

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who plays as a defender for Segeltorp in the Swedish Fifth Division.

Club career

Djurgårdens IF and Assyriska FF (loan)

Amoah joined the Swedish

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

side

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

from the junior squad at the start of the

2004 Allsvenskan Allsvenskan 2004, part of the 2004 in Swedish football, 2004 Swedish football season, was the 80th Allsvenskan season played. The first match was played 3 April 2004 and the last match was played 30 October 2004. Malmö FF won the league ahead of ...

season and then joined

Assyriska FF Assyriska Fotbollsföreningen, also known simply as Assyriska FF, is a Swedish football club based in Södertälje, Stockholm County. The club, formed in 1974 by Assyrian immigrants, has advanced through the league system and is currently playin ...

on loan in the

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season before returning to Djurgårdens IF after helping the club avoid relegation to the

Division 1 2007 The 2007 Division 1 was contested by 28 teams divided into two groups geographically. Assyriska FF and Qviding FIF won their respective groups, and were thereby promoted to Superettan for the 2008 season. Second place teams FC Väsby United and � ...

season.

CF Atlético Ciudad and Paris FC

Amoah then went on to play in Spain in 2007, signing with

CF Atlético Ciudad Club de Fútbol Atlético Ciudad was a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in Murcia, in the autonomous community of Region of Murcia, Murcia. Founded in 2007, it played its last season in ''Segunda División B'' (group IV) ...

for the

2007–08 Tercera División The season 2007–08 Tercera División was fourth tier of football in Spain. Play started on 26 August 2007 and ended 18 May 2008. Overview There were 364 clubs competing in Tercera División (Third division) in the 2007–08 season, divided into ...

season before joining French side

Paris FC Paris Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris FC or simply PFC, is a French professional football club based in Paris, that competes in the Ligue 2, the second tier of French football. Paris FC play their home matches at the Stade Ch ...

for the

2008–09 Championnat National The 2008–09 Championnat National was the 16th edition of the 3rd division league. Play commenced on 1 August 2008 and ended on 29 May 2009. Vannes OC, Tours FC, and Nîmes Olympique were promoted to Ligue 2, replacing Chamois Niortais, FC Libou ...

season.

White Star Woluwe

Amoah then signed for his first club in Belgium, White Star Woluwe, who were at the time playing in the

Belgian Third Division The Belgian Third Division ( nl, Derde klasse, french: Division III) was the third highest level in Football in Belgium, Belgian football. It had two leagues of 18 teams each (Belgian Third Division A, A and Belgian Third Division B, B) at the sam ...

. He helped the club gain promotion from the Third Division to the

Belgian Second Division The Belgian Second Division (known as the Proximus League for sponsorship reasons) was the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system, one level below the Belgian Pro League. It was founded by the Royal Belgian Football Associa ...

by scoring 35 goals in 46 games in the 2010–2011 Belgian Third Division season. This prolific strike rate earned him a move to newly

2011–12 Belgian Pro League The 2011–12 season of the Belgian Pro League (also known as ''Jupiler Pro League'' for sponsorship reasons) was the 109th season of top-tier football in Belgium. It began on 29 July 2011 with the first match of the regular season and ended in M ...

season promoted side

OH Leuven Oud-Heverlee Leuven (), also called OH Leuven or OHL, is a Belgian football club from the city of Leuven. It was created in 2002 from the merger of three clubs, '' F.C. Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee'', whose registration number it inherited, ''D ...

OH Leuven

Amoah joined Belgium

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side

for the

in August 2011. In his first official match for OHL, which was also the first match at the highest level of Belgian football for a team from Leuven in over 60 years, Amoah scored an injury time winner against Belgian giants

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. However, this proved to be his only goal for OHL as he appeared in six further games without scoring, eventually leading to his demotion to the substitute bench. Midway through the season, he transferred back to Woluwe.

Return to White Star Woluwe

Amoah returned to former club White Star Woluwe on the first day of 2012, 1 January, to help the club gain promotion from the

2011–12 Belgian Second Division The 2011–12 season of the Belgian Second Division (also known as EXQI League for sponsorship reasons) started in August 2011 and is the second tier football league in Belgium. The league is played by 18 teams, with 34 matchdays of 9 matches eac ...

to the 2012–2013 Belgian Pro League.

Fortuna Sittard

Amoah signed a two-year contract with the Dutch Jupiler League team

Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard (; li, Fortuna Zitterd ) is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Eredivisie. The club was established through a merger ...

in 2013, but left the team already in 2014.

Back to Sweden

After half a year without a club, Amoah signed for Swedish third division team

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in January 2015.

Personal life

Amoah was born to a

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mother and

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father.

Honours

; Djurgårdens IFhttp://www.difarkivet.se/dif_sm_guld_seniorer.pdf : *

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Svenska Cupen Svenska Cupen (, ''The Swedish Cup'') is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football and the main Swedish football cup. Svenska Cupen usually refers to the men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held. Each year 96 teams compe ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

References

External links

Voetbal International profile
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Amoah, Patrick 1986 births Living people People from Solna Municipality Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players Assyriska FF players Swedish footballers Swedish expatriate footballers Sweden youth international footballers Association football forwards Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in France Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands Expatriate footballers in Spain Paris FC players RWS Bruxelles players Oud-Heverlee Leuven players Fortuna Sittard players Huddinge IF players Vasalunds IF players Allsvenskan players Superettan players Ettan Fotboll players Tercera División players Championnat National players Belgian Pro League players Challenger Pro League players Belgian Third Division players Eerste Divisie players Swedish people of Finnish descent Swedish people of Ghanaian descent Sportspeople from Stockholm County