Richard Ackon (born 10 October 1978) is a retired

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

ian

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 le ...

. He played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. He played for

Ebusua Dwarfs Cape Coast Mysterious Ebusua Dwarfs is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Cape Coast. The club competes in the Ghana Premier League, the Premier division on the Ghanaian football pyramid, and hold home games at Cape Coast Sports Stadi ...

in Ghana before joining Stabæk in Norway in 1997. He played for Stabæk in the

Norwegian Premier League Eliteserien () is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion ...

and the victorious 1998 Norwegian Football Cup run.Weltfussball
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, and was a squad member in the

1998 Africa Cup of Nations The 1998 African Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso was the 21st edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (ACN), the national football championship of Africa, administered by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Just like in 1996, the field of si ...

. His last season at Stabæk was in 2001, he then returned to the Ebusua Dwarfs and played there until 2005.

References

1978 births Living people Ghanaian men's footballers Cape Coast Ebusua Dwarfs players Stabæk Fotball players Eliteserien players Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Ghana men's international footballers Ghana men's under-20 international footballers 1998 African Cup of Nations players Men's association football midfielders {{Ghana-footy-midfielder-stub