Peter Ofori-Quaye

Kalamata

Born in Accra, Ofori-Quaye came to Greece at the age of 15, signing for Kalamata during the Stavros Papadopoulos era of the club. The Papadopoulos era was noted for bringing in talented players from the nation of Ghana with Ofori-Quaye proving to be the most promising player ahead of teammates Samuel Johnson and Derek Boateng.

Olympiacos

At the age of 17, Ofori-Quaye signed for Greek champions Olympiacos for a club record of US$3.5 million. Ofori-Quaye attracted much attention from other clubs, scoring key goals including those in the UEFA Champions League against the likes of Rosenborg, Lyon, and Deportivo La Coruna. In the middle of Olympiacos' coach changing crisis, Ofori-Quaye was released by the club in 2003. He won six Greek Championships with the Piraeus based club, a Hellenic Cup, and helped them reach the quarter-finals of the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League.

Liberty Professionals

After a year away from football, he signed for Ghanaian club Liberty Professionals FC in 2004. In 2005, he returned to Greece signing for OFI where he began to hit good form and was recalled to his national team.

Kiryat Shmona

In July 2007 newly promoted Israeli club Kiryat Shmona tried to sign him, but his contract was not approved in the first place with OFI reporting him missing for the past three months. He went on and played 26 matches and scored 4 goals during his only season with the club.

AEL Limassol

Ofori-Quaye moved to…

Youth

Ofori-Quaye was a member of the Ghana national under-20 football team in the late 1990s. He featured for team during the 1997 and 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. He played a key role in both tournaments, scoring 2 goals in the former and helping Ghana place 4th after losing to Republic of Ireland during the third place play-off. During the 1999 edition, he scored 4 goals, ending the tournament as the joint second top goal scorer even though the team could not go pass the quarter-final stage as they were eliminated by Spain after a penalty shoot-out.

Senior

After his impressive form in Ghana U-20 team and in his first season with Olympiacos, he was called up to the senior team, the Black Stars. He made his debut on 19 January 1998 in a friendly match against Mozambique. He was named in the 22-man squad for the 1998 African Cup of Nations, where he played two matches with Ghana in the group stages. On 28 February 1999, he scored his debut goal in the 2000 AFCON qualifiers against Eritrea which ended in a 5–0 victory. He also made the squad for the 2000 African Cup of Nations. He played 2 matches as Ghana were eliminated in the quarter-finals by South Africa. In October 2006, after being out of the national team for three years, he received a call up for Ghana's International friendly match against Australia on 14 November in London. He played started the match, played 75 minutes before being substituted for Asamoah Gyan, who came on and created the…

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Score and Result lists Ghana's goals first

Ofori-Quaye is a native of Mamprobi, a suburb of Accra known for producing very sportspeople that are considered talented, including former Ghanaian captain Stephen Appiah, the Saba brothers (Christian Saba and Robert Saba), Ali Jarra, and former world boxing champion Azumah Nelson.