Charles Kwabla Akonnor (born 12 March 1974) is a Ghanaian football manager and former player who most recently managed the Ghana national team.[4] A former midfielder, he spent most of his club career in Germany.[5] He made 51 appearances for the Ghana national team scoring 13 goals.
He started his career in Ghana with a colts team Young Hearts, before joining Okwawu United and later Obuasi Goldfields. In 1992, Akonnor moved to Germany with Samuel Kuffour and joined then 2. Bundesliga side Fortuna Köln, where he would spend six seasons and appear in over 150 matches and score over 25 goals before securing a move to Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg where he made his name. At Wolfsburg, Akonnor played over 140 matches, scored over 20 goals and served as captain in the 2001–02 season before leaving the club in 2004 to join SpVgg Unterhaching.[6]
At the international level, he was capped for Ghana at the U20, U23 and the senior team. At the youth level, he starred for Ghana and helped them to third place during the 1991 African Youth Championship and second place during the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship.[7] At the senior level he made 51 appearances and scored 13 goals for Ghana between 1991 and 2001 and captained the team from 1998 to 2001. Akonnor also represented Ghana at the 1996 Summer Olympics and in four Africa Cup of Nations in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000, serving as captain in 2000. In 1998, he was also named in the CAF XI of the year and AFCON Team of the Tournament.[7]
Early life
Akonnor was born and bred in Nungua, a suburb of Accra but hails from Ningo Prampram in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana making him a Ga-Adangbe.[7] He had his basic and junior high school education at Nungua Primary School/JHS and later proceeded to the Nungua Presbyterian Secondary and Commercial School for his secondary school education.[7] Whilst in school, he played football and was an integral member of the school's football team whilst representing the school in juvenile championships and other inter-school games.[7]
Club career
Akonnor started his career with colts club Young Hearts located in Tema in 1985. He was scouted by former Ghana Premier League side Okwawu United, signing for the team in 1988. He played there till 1990 when he secured a deal to join Obuasi Goldfields.[8]
Fortuna Köln
Akonnor first came to Germany in 1992, along with friend and national teammateSamuel Kuffour. He joined Fortuna Köln in 1992 upon his arrival. He played for the side for six years, playing 159 matches in all competitions (153 league matches) and scoring 26 goals all in league matches, averaging a minimum of 26 matches per season.[6]
VfL Wolfsburg
Having played for six years with Fortuna Köln (all in the second division), he switched in 1998 to Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg.[8] He made his competitive debut for the club on 15 August 1998, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 league loss to Bayern Munich.[9] On 28 August 1998, Akonnor scored his competitive debut goal, by scoring the winning goal in the 88th minute of a 4–3 DFB-Pokal victory against Karlsruher SC.[10] On 19 September 1998, he scored his debut league goal in a 4–2 loss to Werder Bremen.[11]
At Wolfsburg, Akonnor quickly developed as a resourceful player and one of the team's most important elements and, in 2001–02, was given team captaincy. However, at the start of the following season he was injured (a knee problem which required an operation in 2003) causing him to miss a greater part of the season. He left the club in January 2004 after five seasons, playing 140 matches in all competitions (121 league matches) and scoring 23 goals (13 in league matches), averaging 28 league matches per season.[6]
SpVgg Unterhaching
His initial injury whilst at Wolfsburg, prompted a January 2004 move to SpVgg Unterhaching, a return to the 2. Bundesliga. He made his debut for the club on 31 January in their 3–1 victory over Greuther Fürth.[12] On 5 April 2004, he scored his debut goal, by scoring Unterhaching's only goal in a 3–1 loss to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.[13] Akonnor immediately became an important player in their team with his experience from playing in the Bundesliga, featuring in 15 of the 17 league matches in the second round of the 2003–04 season.[6]
The following season, he played 31 matches, missing only 3 matches and scored three goals.[6] One of his goals, came in the league match against Erzgebirge Aue, which he scored the second goal to help SpVgg Unterhaching to a comfortable 4–1 victory.[14] At the end of his two-year spell, he had played in 48 matches in all competitions (46 league matches) and scored 4 goals.[6]
Later years
In 2005, Akonnor moved to Denmark to play with AC Horsens, playing an important part in the team's consolidation in the Danish Superliga, where they had just arrived in the previous season. He played one final season in Cyprus' top flight, with Alki Larnaca.
In Summer 2008 left Cyprus and moved to Germany based club SC Langenhagen in the Oberliga Niedersachenliga-West on a one-year contract.[15] He played there until 18 February 2009 when he announced the end of his career.
In July 1996, he was part and served as captain of the 1996 Ghana Olympic squad at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The team finished in second place in Group C, but later lost and exit the competition in the quarter-finals after losing Brazil, a match which Akonnor scored the initial equalizer to grant Ghana a 1–1 before half time but lost by 4–2 at the end through a brace from Ronaldo and a goal from Bebeto.[19]
For the senior team Akonnor would go on and make 51 international caps and later was named captain of the Black Stars following Abedi Pele's retirement.[7][8] However, he would never be recalled again after applying for (and receiving) German citizenship.
In 2014, Akonnor was appointed as the head coach of then Ghana Division One League side Dreams. The following year, he led the team to the Ghana Premier League for the time in the club's history after winning the 2015 Ghana Division One League Zone III getting promoted to compete in the 2016 Ghana Premier League season.[25] In their debut GPL season, he led to ninth-place finish. The club was however demoted by the Ghana Football Association's Disciplinary Committee to the Ghana Division One League in December 2016 due to an anomaly with the registration of a player.[26][27] He left the club permanently in November 2017 following his short-term contract with Ashanti Gold. He subsequently signed a permanent deal with Ashanti Gold.[28]
Ashanti Gold
In April 2017, Akonnor returned to his boyhood club Ashanti Gold, to serve as head coach for the second round of the 2017 Ghana Premier League, after the club had been trailing at the bottom of the league table with eight points after eleven games out of which they had won two, drawn two and recorded seven losses.[29][30] His contract with the club was on an interim basis as he was still under contract with Dreams.[28] He led the team to escape relegation by winning ten matches, drawing three and losing six out of nineteen matches in process accumulating 33 points to finish the league season in 12th place with 41 points overall.[28] He returned to the club in December 2017 on a permanent basis after departing Dreams on mutual terms.[28]
During the 2018 Ghanaian Premier League, he led the team to 2nd place on the league table before the league was cancelled in June 2018 by the government of Ghana's directive following the Number 12 Expose corruption scandal within Ghana Football Association. Within the season, he was adjudged the GPL NASCO Coach of March after leading Ashanti Gold to three wins and one draw in four matches within the month.[31][32] On 29 June 2018, he was sacked by the team, three days after he was suspended for failing to turn up for the club's training.[33][34]
In September 2019, he was shortlisted for the head coach of the Guinea national team role but French national Didier Six was given the position.[41] On 30 October 2019, he was appointed as the assistant coach of the Ghana national team, serving as deputy to James Kwesi Appiah.[42][43] In early January 2020, his appointment as assistant coach of the Ghana national team was terminated. This happened as a result of the Ghana Football Association's decision to dissolve the technical crews of the senior teams.[44] However, he was appointed as the head coach of Ghana on 15 January 2020.[45]David Duncan was appointed as his assistant.[46][47]
Ahead of Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers against South Africa and São Tomé and Príncipe, he choose to summon 32 locally based players for an intensive training regimen.[48] He revealed that the global COVID-19 pandemic necessitated his decision to name 32 home-based players for the AFCON qualifiers because some of the players invited for the previous matches had tested positive after returning to their clubs.[48]
On 13 September 2021, the Ghana Football Association announced that Akonnor along with his two assistants, David Duncan and Patrick Greveraars had been sacked after their contracts had been terminated, following an unconvincing win against Ethiopia and defeat to South Africa in a World Cup qualifying match.[49][50]
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