Haminu Draman (born 1 April 1986) is a Ghanaian former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Having started his career in Ghana with

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, Draman joined Serbian club

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for the 2005–06. Having won the championship and the cup with Red Star he moved to Turkey, where he made 31 league appearances for Gençlerbirliği as they finished sixth in the Turkish

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Lokomotiv Moscow

Draman signed a three-year contract with Russian Cup winners

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on 19 June 2007. Draman joined Lokomotiv when the Russian transfer window opened on 1 August 2007. He was expected to replace Russian international

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, who is on loan to Portuguese club

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for a year. Following the transfer of Draman Gençlerbirliği's coach

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quit after just over a week in charge because he disagreed with the club's decision. Yanal, who had previously been coach of Gençlerbirliği before leaving to become the Turkey national team coach, had signed a three-year contract with the club on 1 June 2007. "The chairman's promises seem to have changed from the way they were before the agreement we made" Yanal said. "We would like to be a strong team but we sold Draman. The club want to try some players on trial in the meantime but this is not the way that I work. Gençlerbirliği chairman Cavcav, who had been in charge of the club for 30 years, responded by saying: "We met with the coach before and then I told him that I have to sell Draman to Locomotiv Moskva because all of the negotiations were over and I promised to sell him.

Loan to Kuban Krasnodar

It was reported that English Premiership side

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were interested in signing Draman because of his speed and skills in the January 2008 transfer window, and that a fee of €3 million had been agreed. On 18 February 2009, Draman signed for FC Kuban Krasnodar on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow. He played 23 matches and scored 3 goals by the end of the season.

Arles-Avignon

On 11 July 2011, Draman signed a one-year contract with French

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side AC Arles-Avignon. In July 2013, Draman signed a two-year contract for Portuguese club

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on a free transfer. This was after he had left Arles Avignon due to unpaid salary.

Asante Kotoko

Draman left Gil Vicente during the winter-break, and by early 2014, he was back in Ghana, after almost a decade, by signing with

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His return turned out to be a great success as he won the double, the

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and the 2014

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during his half-year spell with Asante Kotoko back in Ghana.

FC Infonet

He signed for FC Infonet in January 2016. With 3 goals in 23 appearances he helped them win their first ever national title, the

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International career

Draman was 19 when he made his international debut for Ghana in a friendly against

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on 14 November 2005. He is a member of the

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, and was called up to the

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. He scored his first goal of the tournament against the U.S. on 22 June 2006. He took a starring role in Ghana's International friendly against former World Champions

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on 27 March 2007 where the Ghanaians lost 1–0, terrorising the Samba Boys right back

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, before being dismissed late in the game for a second bookable offence on Ilsinho's replacement

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Note on name

There was some confusion during the

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as Draman's surname was misspelled DRAMANI on the back of his shirt and, as a result, on

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documents. The Ghanaian FA confirmed his name was Draman. He also confirmed this himself in an interview to ''

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,'' a Russian newspaper.Хамину ДРАМАН: "ПОПРОШУ УБРАТЬ БУКВУ "И" С ФУТБОЛКИ. Я – ДРАМАН"
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Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Draman goal.''

Honours

Red Star Belgrade *

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: 2005–06 *

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Lokomotiv Moscow * Russian Cup: 2007 Asante Kotoko *

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: 2013–14 *

: 2014 Infonet *

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Ghana *

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(runner-up)

References

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