Ohene Kennedy

{{Short description|Ghanaian footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox football biography | image = | name = Ohene Kennedy | fullname = Ohene Kennedy | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|4|28|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Accra]], [[Ghana]] | height = {{height|m=1.81}} | position = [[Forward (association football)|Forward]] | currentclub = | clubnumber = | years1 = 1992–1993 | clubs1 = [[Cape Coast Ebusua Dwarfs|Mysterious Dwarfs]] | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1993–1997 | clubs2 = [[Al-Nassr FC|Al-Nassr]] | caps2 = 159 | goals2 = 74 | years3 = 1997–2002 | clubs3 = [[MKE Ankaragücü]] | caps3 = 106 | goals3 = 38 | years4 = 2002–2003 | clubs4 = [[Adanaspor]] | caps4 = 0 | goals4 = 0 | years5 = 2003–2004 | clubs5 = [[Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club|Dhanmondi Club]] | caps5 = | goals5 = | nationalyears1 = 1994–2000 | nationalteam1 = [[Ghana national football team|Ghana]] | nationalcaps1 = 7 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | pcupdate = | ntupdate = }} '''Ohene Kennedy''' (born 28 April 1973) is a retired [[Ghana]]ian football striker.<ref name="NFT Stats"/>

==Club career== Kennedy's golden days were with [[Al-Nassr FC|Al-Nassr]] in Saudi Arabia, where he played and scored many goals. He began his professional career at the [[Ebusua Dwarfs|Mysterious Dwarfs]] club of Ghana in the 1992–93 season, aged 19.

He joined Al-Nassr in 1993, and soon became one of the team's most valuable players and top scorers. In total, he scored 74 goals for Al-Nassr and won the [[Saudi Professional League|Saudi league]] twice; 1994 and 1995, he also was the league's top scorer in 1996 with 14 goals. He had 4 hat-tricks during this period. On 10 November 1996, he scored a hat-trick for Al-Nassr to win 3–2 against [[Persepolis F.C.|Persepolis]] in the [[1996–97 Asian Club Championship]] quarterfinals.

He later played in Turkey for [[MKE Ankaragücü]] and [[Adanaspor]], then in Bangladesh for [[Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club|Dhanmondi Club]].

==International career== He was part of the [[Ghana national football team|Ghanaian]] [[2000 African Nations Cup]] team, who exited in the quarter-finals after losing to [[South Africa national soccer team|South Africa]]. He was also a member of the Ghanaian squad at the [[Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|1996 Summer Olympics]].

==Post-retirement== Kennedy went to live in [[Croydon]], England after retirement from football, where he worked for a transportation company called [[Dynamic Parcel Distribution]] (DPD).

==Career statistics== ===International=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- !colspan=3|[[Ghana national football team|Ghana national team]] |- !Year!!Apps!!Goals |- |1994||2||0 |- |1994||1||0 |- |1996||0||0 |- |1997||0||0 |- |1998||2||0 |- |1999||1||0 |- |2000||1||0 |- !Total||7||0 |} ''Statistics accurate as of match played 6 February 2000''<ref name="NFT Stats">{{NFT player|pid=12923|name=Ohene Kennedy|accessdate=26 March 2018}}</ref>

== Honours == '''Al-Nassr''' * [[Saudi Pro League|Saudi Premier League]]: [[1993–94 Saudi Premier League|1993–94]], [[1994–95 Saudi Premier League|1994–95]]

==References== <references />

==External links== *{{NFT player|pid=12923}} * {{TFF player|29297}}

{{Saudi Professional League top scorers}} {{Ghana squad 1996 Summer Olympics}} {{Ghana Squad 2000 Africa Cup of Nations}}

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