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Elizabeth Addo

Elizabeth Addo

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club career

Addo began her career in Ghana, playing for Tesano Ladies F.C. in 2003 and later signed for Athleta Ladies F.C locally known as "Ashaiman Ladies" based in Ashaiman in the year 2007–2012. She spent couple of seasons there and later joined Nigerian giant side Rivers Angels F.C. from 2012 to 2014. Her performance helped the team win the 2012–13 Nigerian Women Football League and 2013–14 Nigerian Women Football League under Rivers Angels F.C. manager Edwin Okon. The Port Harcourt women, doubled the lead in the 56th minute after a beautiful interplay in Amazon's 18-yard box was scored by Addo. Addo returned to Ghana in 2014 and later joined ŽFK Spartak Subotica in Serbia the same year.

Ferencvárosi TC, 2015–16

In 2015, Addo moved back to Europe and joined Hungarian giant Ferencvárosi TC in Budapest Hungary. She was an integral part of the first team under manager Balázs Dörnyei and won the 2015–16 Hungarian Női NB I league title and Hungarian Women's Cup in 2016. Addo was considered one of the team's top three players. She played 27 league matches and scored 17 goals helping her team winning the Hungarian Női NB I League title. She scored the equalizing goal in the 89th minute against rival MTK which turned the score line Ferencvárosi TC 1–1 MTK. Her equalizing goal helped her club qualify for the Hungarian FA Cup finals on penalties. She played the full 90 minutes for her side to defeat Honved 5–0 in the finals. Addo played for Club Ferencváros in the 2015–16 UEFA…

International career

Youth team

Addo has been a full international for Ghana since 2007. At the age of 14, she starred with the under-14 national team at the 2007 FIFA U-14 Women's World Cup held in Switzerland and captained the team to finals and eventually the championship . She captained Ghana at the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup held in New Zealand and was the deputy captain for Ghana's U17 female team (Black Maidens) at the 2010 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Addo was part of the national team which competed in the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in Germany and competed at the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in Japan.

Senior team

She was also part of the national team which competed in the 2014 African Women's Championship qualification. She was among Ghana Squared which faced Cameroon for 2016 Rio Olympic Games qualifier at Accra Sports Stadium -Ghana She played in a friendly match against Germany on 22 July 2016. 12 April 2016, she played a key role in Ghana qualifying for the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations. She led the Ghanaian team as captain to the Third place position in the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations. She won two man of the matches awards and scored 3 goals in the Tournament to finish as the 3rd top scorer and the top scorer for the Ghanaian team. Due to her exploits at the tournament she was named in the Team of the Tournament. She was part of the Ghanaian team to the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations hosted in Ghana. In March 2020, she was…

Club
Rivers Angels F.C.

Legacy

Honours

Rivers Angels

Nigeria Women Premier League: 2014 Aiteo Cup: 2013, 2014 Ferencváros

Női NB I: 2015–16 Nöi Magyar Kupa: 2015–16 Jiangsu Suning

Chinese Women's Super League: 2019 Chinese Women's FA Cup: 2019 Chinese Women's FA Tournament: 2019 Chinese Women's Super cup: 2019 AFC Women's Club Championship runners-up: 2019 Ghana

Africa Women Cup of Nations third-place: 2016 Turkish Women's Cup third-place: 2020 Individual

Africa Women Cup of Nations 2016: Best XI Ghana Women's Footballer of the Year: 2019 Africa Women's Player of the Year 2016: Top 3 Africa Women's Player of the Year 2018: Top 10 Africa Women's Player of the Year 2019: Top 10 IFFHS CAF Women's Team of the Decade: 2011–2020

Clubs

  • Rivers Angels F.C.current

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Description

Ghanaian association football player

Position

forward

Extract from Wikipedia

Elizabeth Addo is a Ghanaian football forward who plays for Saudi club Al-Nahda. She is also the captain of the Ghana women's national football team.

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