Akel Clarke

Akel Clarke
Clarke with Guyana at the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Personal information
Full name Akel Kayode Clarke
Date of birth (1988-10-25) 25 October 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Georgetown, Guyana
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Mount Pleasant Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2012 Defence Force
2012–2014 St. Ann's Rangers
2014–2017 Central
2017–2018 North East Stars
2018 Fruta Conquerors
2019–2020 Walking Boyz Company
2020- Mount Pleasant Football Academy
International career‡
2011– Guyana 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 June 2019

Akel Kayode Clarke (born 25 October 1988) is a professional Guyanese football player. He plays in Jamaica for Mount Pleasant Football Academy.

Career

Club

Clarke has played club football in Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname and Jamaica

International

He made his Guyana national football team debut on 29 May 2011 in a friendly against Barbados, as a starter.[1]

He was selected for Guayana's 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad and started the country's very first game in the history of the tournament against the United States on 18 June 2019.[2]

Despite cancellation of a match in Barbados for the CONCACACF 2021 Gold Cup Qualifiers in March 2020, Clarke maintained a training regiment in preparation for a return to football after COVID-19.[3] Late 2020 he signed with the Red Stripe Premier League club Mount Pleasant Football Academy (based in St. Ann, Jamaica) after release from Western Tigers.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Barbados v Guyana game report". Soccerway. 29 May 2011.
  2. ^ "United States v Guyana game report". CONCACAF. 18 June 2019. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Clarke still training despite shutdown". Stabroek News. 2020-04-16. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  4. ^ "Akel Clarke inks deal with Jamaica club". Stabroek News. 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-01-12.


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