Yeboah Amankwah (born 19 October 2000) is an English professional
footballer who plays as a
defender for
Belgian First Division B
The Challenger Pro League (previously known as ''1B Pro League'') is the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system, one level below the Belgian First Division A. It was created by the Royal Belgian Football Association in 201 ...
club
Lommel.
Career
Amankwah joined
Manchester City
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from Croydon based charity Kinetic Academy in December 2016. He joined
League One side
Rochdale in September 2020 on a loan to the end of the 2020–21 season. He made his professional debut on 8 September in a 2–1
EFL Trophy
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win at
Morecambe
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Name
The first use of the name was by John Whitaker in his ''History of Manchester'' (1771), w ...
, playing the first 72 minutes of the match. A week later he played the entirety of a 2–0 home defeat to
Sheffield Wednesday in the
EFL Cup
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, but sustained a knee injury in the match that saw him recalled from his loan the following month.
He moved on loan to
Accrington Stanley in August 2021.
Amankwah signed for
Lommel in September 2022.
References
External links
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1999 births
Living people
English footballers
Association football defenders
Manchester City F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. players
Lommel S.K. players
English Football League players
English expatriate footballers
English expatriates in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
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