Joseph Aidoo (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph Aidoo | ||
| Date of birth | 29 September 1995 | ||
| Place of birth | Ghana | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre-back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Genk | ||
| Number | 45 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2015 | Inter Allies | 17 | (0) |
| 2015 | → Hammarby IF (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Hammarby IF | 26 | (1) |
| 2017– | Genk | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2015 | Ghana U-20 | 10 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 July 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 January 2016 |
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Joseph Aidoo (born 29 September 1995) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Genk in the Belgian First Division A.
He started his professional football career at Inter Allies in the First Capital Plus Premier League, being the team captain in the season of 2014/2015. In the season of 2013/2014, Aidoo was nominated in the category "Defender of the year" in the Ghana Premier League, but eventually missed out on the award.
In August 2015, Swedish team Hammarby in Allsvenskan signed Aidoo on a six-month loan deal. He made his debut, and his only appearance during the season, against then reigning champions Malmö FF on 25 October 2015. Even though Hammarby lost with a score of 0-1, Aidoo put on an impressive performance being voted "Hammarby player of the game".
Before the 2016 Allsvenskan season, he signed for Hammarby permanently on a three-year deal. He made his first league appearance of the season against Malmö FF on 18 May, playing the first half before being substituted at halftime.
Mid through the campaign, manager Nanne Bergstrand chose to swap the two central defenders, with Aidoo and newly signed David Boo Wiklander making their entrances as regular starters. Out of the following 11 games, Hammarby won an impressive 7 – also keeping a clean sheet in 6 consecutive away fixtures. Aidoo scored his first competitive goal for Hammarby on 12 September 2016, in a 1-1 draw against Örebro SK on home turf.
Aidoo started out the 2017 season in fine form, with Hammarby only conceding 5 goals in the 6 first matches. Aidoo's performances led to him being named in April's best eleven for African players over the world, in the magazine Goal.
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