Kwame Bonsu

Kwame Bonsu
	Bonsu with Gefle IF in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Kwame Bonsu
Date of birth	25 September 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth	Buduburam, Ghana
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Al-Ain
Number	3
Youth career
	Anokye Stars
	Heart of Lions
Senior career*
Years	Team
2012–2013	Heart of Lions
2013	→ FC Rosengård (loan)
2014–2015	Mjällby AIF
2015–2017	Gefle IF
2018–2019	Asante Kotoko
2019–2020	Espérance ST
2020–2022	Ceramica Cleopatra
2023	Al Bataeh
2024	Naft Al-Basra
2024–	Al-Ain
International career‡
2019–	Ghana
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 March 2019

Kwame Bonsu (born 25 September 1994) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ain. He has had previous spells in Sweden with Gefle IF, Mjällby AIF, Rosengård and for Asante Kotoko in his home country Ghana.

Club career

Youth career (Heart of Lions)

At the age of 17 Bonsu got a contract to play for the Ghanaian premier league team Heart of Lions in the 2012/13 season By the end of the season he had played 22 games and scored 4 goals for the Ghanaian premier club.^[2]^[3]

Career in Sweden

In 2013 whilst playing for Heart of Lions based in Kpando, Kwame secured a loan deal to play in Sweden for Malmo team FC Rosengard. He played eight league matches and scored two goals for Rosengård, both goals scored on 7 September 2013 in a 2–1 win over Hässleholms IF.

His performances for Heart of Lions secured him a permanent contract to play for Mjallby AIF in the 2014/15 season. Bonsu played a total of 39 matches, scoring two goals for Mjällby AIF.^[4] He then signed a three-year contract with Gefle IF in July 2015 after leaving Mjällby AIF.^[5]

He played 42 league matches between 2015 and 2017 .^[6]^[7]

Asante Kotoko

The former IF Gafle midfielder moved back to Ghana to join Asante Kotoko in October 2018.^[8]^[6]

He played a key role in the team's impressive run in the CAF Confederation Cup as they progressed to the group stages of the cup for the first time in 11 years.^[9]^[10] He also helped the club to win the Normalization Committee Tier one cup.^[11]^[12]^[7]

Espérance Sportive de Tunis

Due to his performance for Asante Kotoko in the CAF Confederation 2019 Competition,^[7] he secured a move to Tunisian League giants Espérance Sportive de Tunis July 2019.^[13]

He played in 15 matches out of 26 matches, of which he started 14 matches as Espérance ST won the 2019–20 Tunisian Ligue^[14]

Al-Ain

On 24 August 2024, Bonsu joined Saudi Arabian club Al-Ain.^[15]

International

Bonsu made his debut for the Ghana national football team on 26 March 2019 in a friendly against Mauritania.^[16]

Honours

Club

Espérance de Tunis

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (1): 2019–20^[17]
Tunisian Super Cup (1): 2020^[18]

References

^ "FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019: List of Players: ES Tunis" (PDF). FIFA. 5 December 2019. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2019.
^ "Heart of Lions 2-0 Hearts of Oak: Phobians' heart broken at Kpando | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "A Resurrected Dream: The Story Of An Ex-Convict Kwame Bonsu". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Officiellt: Kwame Bonsu klar för Mjällby AIF". Fotbolltransfers. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
^ "Kwame Bonsu ready for Gefle IF". gefleiffotboll. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Ghana's Kwame Bonsu handed two-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting wife in Sweden". Firstpost. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "Free from captivity Bonsu steering Kotoko wheel". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Ghanaian footballer Kwame Bonsu returns to action after serving jail time in Sweden". GhanaSoccernet. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Kotoko will qualify from group stage — Frimpong". Graphic Online. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Konadu expects Kotoko not to struggle in group stage | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ Osman, Abdul Wadudu (17 July 2019). "Official : Esperance complete the signing of Kwame Bonsu". Football Made In Ghana. Retrieved 26 September 2020.^{[dead link‍]}
^ Association, Ghana Football. "GFA-NC congratulates Kotoko on Tier 1 Special Competition victory". www.ghanafa.org. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Ghanaian midfielder Kwame Bonsu delighted with Esperance move". GhanaSoccernet. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Kwame Bonsu becomes fifth Ghanaian to win Tunisian League after latest Espérance triumph". MyJoyOnline.com. 30 August 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "كوامي بونســو ينظم للعيــن السعودي".
^ "Ghana v Mauritania game report". Footy Ghana. 26 March 2019.
^ Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "Esperance are Tunisian League Champions for 30th time". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
^ Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "Penalty joy as Esperance wins fifth Tunisian Super Cup". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 25 September 2020.

External links

Kwame Bonsu at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
Kwame Bonsu at National-Football-Teams.com
Kwame Bonsu at Soccerway

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[FCWC_2019-1] "FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019: List of Players: ES Tunis" (PDF). FIFA. 5 December 2019. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2019.

[2] "Heart of Lions 2-0 Hearts of Oak: Phobians' heart broken at Kpando | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[3] "A Resurrected Dream: The Story Of An Ex-Convict Kwame Bonsu". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[4] "Officiellt: Kwame Bonsu klar för Mjällby AIF". Fotbolltransfers. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

[5] "Kwame Bonsu ready for Gefle IF". gefleiffotboll. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015.

[:1-6] "Ghana's Kwame Bonsu handed two-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting wife in Sweden". Firstpost. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[:0-7] Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "Free from captivity Bonsu steering Kotoko wheel". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[8] "Ghanaian footballer Kwame Bonsu returns to action after serving jail time in Sweden". GhanaSoccernet. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[9] "Kotoko will qualify from group stage — Frimpong". Graphic Online. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[10] "Konadu expects Kotoko not to struggle in group stage | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[11] Osman, Abdul Wadudu (17 July 2019). "Official : Esperance complete the signing of Kwame Bonsu". Football Made In Ghana. Retrieved 26 September 2020.^{[dead link‍]}

[12] Association, Ghana Football. "GFA-NC congratulates Kotoko on Tier 1 Special Competition victory". www.ghanafa.org. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[13] "Ghanaian midfielder Kwame Bonsu delighted with Esperance move". GhanaSoccernet. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[14] "Kwame Bonsu becomes fifth Ghanaian to win Tunisian League after latest Espérance triumph". MyJoyOnline.com. 30 August 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

[15] "كوامي بونســو ينظم للعيــن السعودي".

[16] "Ghana v Mauritania game report". Footy Ghana. 26 March 2019.

[17] Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "Esperance are Tunisian League Champions for 30th time". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 25 September 2020.

[18] Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "Penalty joy as Esperance wins fifth Tunisian Super Cup". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 25 September 2020.

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