Gideon_Mensah_(footballer,_born_1998)
Gideon Mensah (footballer, born 1998)
Ghanaian footballer (born 1998)
Gideon Mensah (born 18 July 1998) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for French Ligue 2 club Auxerre, and the Ghana national team.
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Mensah in Liefering training in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gideon Mensah[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1998-07-18) 18 July 1998 (age 25) | ||
| Place of birth | Accra, Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Left-back[3] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Auxerre | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2016 | WAFA | 8 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Liefering | 47 | (0) |
| 2017–2022 | Red Bull Salzburg | 0 | (0) |
| 2019 | → Sturm Graz (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | → Zulte Waregem (loan) | 19 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → Vitória de Guimarães (loan) | 13 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | → Bordeaux (loan) | 23 | (0) |
| 2022– | Auxerre | 42 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019– | Ghana | 13 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 January 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:10, 10 December 2022 (UTC) | |||
FC Red Bull Salzburg
In January 2019, Mensah joined Sturm Graz on loan until the end of the season.[4] On 29 August 2019, he was then loaned out to Belgian club Zulte Waregem for the 2019–20 season.[5]
Loan to Bordeaux
On 3 August 2021, Mensah joined Bordeaux on a season-long loan with an option to buy until the end of the 2021–22 Ligue 1 season.[6]
Auxerre
On 12 August 2022, Mensah signed a three-year contract with Auxerre.[7]
Mensah made his debut for the Ghana national team in the 2021 AFCON qualifier against South Africa in 2019.[8]
He was part of the Ghana national team in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations that suffered elimination at the group stage of the competition.[9][10]
- "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Ghana (GHA)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 14. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- Gideon Mensah at Soccerway
- Profile at WorldFootball, worldfootball.net
- "GIDEON MENSAH JOINS STURM GRAZ". Red Bull Salzburg. 10 November 2023.
- Gideon Mensah: Ghanaian fullback joins Zulte Waregem from Red Bull Salzburg, goal.com, 29 August 2019
- "Gideon Mensah rejoint le Club". Girondins.com. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- "GIDEON MENSAH EST AUXERROIS !" (in French). Auxerre. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- Sienu, Sheikh Tophic (6 September 2021). "WCQ 2022: Gideon Mensah earns Ghana start against South Africa". Football Made In Ghana. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- "Gideon Mensah returns to Bordeaux after Ghana's exit from Afcon". Footballghana. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- "Ghana dumped out of Afcon by Comoros". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
Media related to Gideon Mensah at Wikimedia Commons- Gideon Mensah at Soccerway
- Gideon Mensah at National-Football-Teams.com
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