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| Full name | Charles Kumi Gyamfi | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1929-12-04)4 December 1929[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Accra, Ghana | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 1 September 2015(2015-09-01) (aged 85) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Accra, Ghana | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1948 | Sailors | ||||||||||||||||
| 1948–1949 | Ebusua Dwarfs | ||||||||||||||||
| 1949–1954 | Asante Kotoko | ||||||||||||||||
| 1954–1956 | Kumasi Great Ashantis | ||||||||||||||||
| 1956–1960 | Hearts of Oak | ||||||||||||||||
| 1960–1961 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1950–1961 | Ghana | ||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1965 | Ghana | ||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | Africa XI | ||||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Ghana | ||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1984 | Municipal Club | ||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | Somalia U21 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1991 | AFC Leopards | ||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Ashanti Gold | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Charles Kumi Gyamfi (4 December 1929 – 2 September 2015) was a Ghanaianfootballer andcoach, who as a player became the first African to play in Germany when he joinedFortuna Düsseldorf in 1960,[2] and later became the first coach to lead theGhana national football team to anAfrica Cup of Nations victory.
Gyamfi had his primary school education at theAccra Royal School in James Town. As coach of theGhana national football team, he won theAfrican Cup of Nations three times (1963,1965 and1982), making him the most successful coach in the competition's history.[3] This record has since been equalled by Egypt'sHassan Shehata.[4]
Gyamfi was also the coach of the Ghana national football team during their Olympic debut at the1964 Summer Olympics.[1] He returned to coach the Olympic team for the1972 tournament.[1]
He was a member of FIFA's Technical Study Group for the1999 and2001 FIFA World Youth Championship.[5][6]
In January 2008 he publicly lamented the modern obsession of players with money rather than the love of the game.[3] He died in September 2015.[7]
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