Ropapa Kwamina Mensah (born 20 August 1997) is a Ghanaian
footballer
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who plays for
Chattanooga Red Wolves in
USL League One
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.
Club career
Mensah signed with
USL Championship
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side
Harrisburg City Islanders
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on 23 March 2017. For the 2018 season, he moved to another USL team,
Nashville SC
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. On 10 February 2018, he scored the first goal in Nashville SC history, in a friendly against
Atlanta United FC
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Founded in 2014, Atlanta United began pl ...
.
On November 14, 2018, Nashville announced that they had purchased Mensah from Inter Allies following his season-long loan.
On January 29, 2020,
Pittsburgh Riverhounds FC announced that they had signed Mensah to a one year contract for the
2020
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season with an option for the 2021 season.
After spending the 2022 season with
Egyptian Second Division
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side Port Fouad FC, Mensah returned to the
United States
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to sign with
USL League One
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side
Chattanooga Red Wolves SC
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on January 27, 2023.
International career
On November 1, 2019, Mensah was called up to
Ghana
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's U23 squad for the
2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations
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.
References
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1997 births
Living people
Ghanaian footballers
Penn FC players
Nashville SC (2018–19) players
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC players
Sporting Kansas City II players
Association football forwards
USL Championship players
International Allies F.C. players
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Ghana Premier League players
Footballers from Accra
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Egypt
Expatriate footballers in Egypt
Ghanaian expatriate footballers
Chattanooga Red Wolves SC players