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Seidu Yahaya

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Seydou Yahaya
Personal information
Date of birth (1989-12-31) 31 December 1989 (age 34)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2004–2006 Tema Youth
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2009 Tema Youth
2008–2009Anagennisi Karditsa (loan) 29 (0)
2009–2010 AEK Athens 3 (0)
2010–2012 Maccabi Haifa 47 (1)
2012–2015 Astra Giurgiu 66 (4)
2015–2017 Sheriff Tiraspol 42 (0)
2018 Dinamo Minsk 29 (0)
2019 Al-Fayha 3 (0)
2019 Dinamo Minsk 23 (1)
2020 Liepāja 23 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 December 2020

Seidu Yahaya (born 31 December 1989) is a former Ghanaian footballer.

Career

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Yahaya started his professional career at Tema Youth in 2006.[1] In 2008, Yahaya was transferred from Tema Youth to Anagennisi Karditsa on a loan deal, where he featured 29 times for the Canaries all making it in the starting eleven. From Anagennisi he made it to AEK Athens where he featured five times.[2] Although he made some good appearances in the start of the 2009–2010 season, including his first Europa League game against Everton at the Goodison Park in England, Yahaya fell out of favor with Dusan Bajevic quickly and was never featured again.

He was signed by Maccabi Haifa in 2010. In the first season with Maccabi Haifa Yahaya won the championship and lost in the cup final. Maccabi Haifa exercised Yahaya's contract option for the next three years where he left his previous number 18 shirt for his favorite number 6 shirt.

On the 20 June 2012, he signed a three-year contract with Liga I club Astra Giurgiu,[3] which ended On 30 June 2015. He joined Sheriff Tiraspol on 14 June 2015 through where he won the Moldovan Supercup in his first game against Milsami Orhei.

Honours

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Maccabi Haifa
Astra Giurgiu
Sheriff Tiraspol

References

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  1. ^ "Kotoko stop Gunners from firing". Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  2. ^ "AEK Athens Profile". Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  3. ^ "Astra bought a ghanese midfielder". Gazeta Sporturilor. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
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