Cecil Jones Attuquayefio
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Cecil Jones Attuquayefio | ||
| Date of birth | 18 October 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Accra, Ghana, | ||
| Date of death | 12 May 2015 (aged 70) | ||
| Place of death | Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1962–1965 | Ghana Academicals | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1962–1963 | Accra Standfast F.C. | ||
| 1963–1965 | Ghana Republicans F.C. | ||
| 1966–1974 | Great Olympics | ||
| National team | |||
| 1965–1974 | Ghana | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1974–1984 | Great Olympics | ||
| 1982–1984 | GFA (Vice-President) | ||
| 1985–1987 | Ghana (Assistant Coach) | ||
| 1988–1989 | Okwawu United | ||
| 1989–1990 | Stade Abidjan | ||
| 1990–1993 | Goldfields Obuasi | ||
| 1993–1995 | Goldfields Academy | ||
| 1995–1997 | GFA (General Secretary) | ||
| 1996 | Ghana U-23 (Assistant Coach) | ||
| 1998–1999 | Ghana U-17 | ||
| 1998–2001 | Hearts of Oak | ||
| 2000–2001 | Ghana | ||
| 2002 | Liberty Professionals F.C. | ||
| 2003–2004 | Benin | ||
| 2004– | Liberty Professionals F.C. (Technical Director) | ||
| 2006–2015 | Ghana (scout) | ||
| 2007–2009 | Ghana (Ministry of Sport) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was a Ghanaian footballer and coach.
He played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the 1965 African Nations Cup.
He managed the Benin national team to the 2004 African Nations Cup,Hearts of Oak to the 2000 African Champions League title and the 2004 CAF Confederation Cup. He also managed Ghana's national team. In 2008/2009 Attuquayefio coached Liberty Professionals F.C. and became the title coach of the Century.
Cecil Jones Attuquayefio was named African coach of the year in 2000 after his club Accra Hearts of Oak of Ghana won the African Champions league with only one loss throughout the entire tournament (to DC Motema Pembe).
In 2015, Jones Attuquayefio died in the early hours of May 12, 2015 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana's capital, from throat cancer.
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